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offered to obtain for me, later in the season, photographs of close 

 views of the Grebes, because when out in their boat she often has 

 the cliance of seeing them at very close quarters after they have 

 hatched off their young, when they are very tame and permit a near 

 approach, but she has not been successful in obtaining this to date 

 of going to press. 



Loch Lindores is the main feeder to Tay below the junction of 

 the Earn. The ownership of the loch is a curious and complicated 

 affair. The ground and the fish and fowl of the loch belong to the 

 property of Inchyre, along with a carriage- drive round the loch at 

 low water. But the water is the property of a i\Ir. Watt, Dundee ; 

 and there were formerly mill-'water rights at several points, e.g. 

 Grange Farm, Glenburnie Saw-mill, Den Mill (meal), Craigmill, and 

 a bone mill, etc. Now, however, only the saw-mill and Craigmill 

 retain rights, and are the property of Mr. Speedie, of Messrs. Speedie, 

 Perth. 



CRIEFF DISTRICT. 



Passing over the lower flat lands of the haughs of the river 

 Earn, I next select Crieff as a centre from which to survey the 

 beautiful country of the south-west of the area and parts of the 

 remoter glens. 



Lone Glen Artney. 



The drive from Crieff to Glen Artney passes through that lovely 

 scenery which is without rival of its kind in that loveliest county 

 of Scotland, viz. Perthshire. On the occasion of our visit, we took 

 the higher way, by twisty and narrow, but admirably kept, roads, 

 through " hazel-shades " and wooded knolls, and past the northern 

 base of the Torlum Hill. Along the roadsides we found fine 

 avenues of old timber trees in stately rows — elm, ash, sycamore, 

 larch, and pine, etc. Every here and there we gained peeps of the 

 more distant mountains, and of the fertile haughs and meadows 

 which fringe the banks of the river Earn between Comrie and 



