of the Fwlwry Hoard for Scotland, 
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Buckland and myself in 1870, would have been the most effectual way of 
enabling fish to ascend. But it would have cost considerably more than 
the present ladder. Salmon do not enter the river earlier than the begin- 
ning of March. There has been no netting in the pool below the fall. I 
was told that there are papers in the hands of Mr Grant of Glen Moriston 
showing that, so far back as 1830, salmon were taken by net and coble 
in the pool below the fall, and sent to Inverness and sold. I was also 
informed that the Crown had made a claim in respect of the new Salmon 
Fishery to be created in the river above the falls by the erection of the 
present ladder, and that this claim had been ultimately compromised by 
the payment of a sum of £100 or £150 for a charter from the Crown. 
The proprietor already possesses a Barony title fortified by prescription 
to the Salmon Fishings in the river below the fall. It will be re- 
membered that in their 9th Report the Board advert to this claim of the 
Crown to all new fishings, created by proprietors on a salmon river open- 
ing up impassable obstructions, as one of the chief causes that has pre- 
vented the removal of such barriers ; and it will also be remembered that 
the Committee on Crown Rights in Scotch Salmon Fisheries, in their 
Report of May 1890, write as follows : — ' The greater the extent of spawn- 
' ing ground that can be opened up the better for the public interest. 
' We therefore recommend that in all cases where such obstructions 
' exist, riparian owners be encouraged to undertake their removal by 
' receiving a charter of the fishings ex adverso their lands on favourable 
' terms,' and the 12th recommendation of the Committee is : — ' On the 
' general question of the removal of natural obstructions, when this will 
' open up unchartered waters, we would approve of power being conferred 
' upon the Fishery Board to require or undertake their removal, and when 
' doing so to prepare a scheme regulating the interests of all concerned.' 
After leaving Glen Moriston, I proceeded northwards to inspect Upper Upper Loch 
Loch Torridon and its tributary streams. On my way I drove along the Torridon 
side of Loch Luichart from which the river Conon issues to leap over the gleams 
impassable Falls of Conon. Above these Falls, there are 30 miles of aiy reams - 
beautiful water comprising several important lochs, including Loch Luichart 
(6 miles long) and Loch Roshk (4 miles long), which would all be opened 
up to salmon by making the falls belowLoch Luichart passable and the rapid 
and fall between Loch Luichart and Loch Cullen. A plan for doing this 
was furnished by the late Mr William Patterson, C.E., of Inverness, many 
years ago, and would have been carried out by the upper proprietors if 
the Crown had not demanded too large a sum for granting them rights to 
the new fishings, which would have been thereby created. 
Loch Torridon is a spacious sea-loch belonging to Applecross parish in 
Ross-shire. Its upper part is very remote and very picturesque, more than 
a dozen miles from the nearest inn. From its mouth the loch stretches 
nearly 8 miles eastward to the entrance of Loch Shieldag, and then 6 miles 
farther eastward to the foot of Glen Torridon. It measures 4J miles 
across the entrance, contracts near Sheildag to less than half a mile ; and 
afterwards, in Upper Loch Torridon, attains a width of If mile. Steep 
and lofty mountains look down upon it, two of which — Ben Liagach and 
Ben Alligin — attain a height of 3456 and 3232 feet respectively. The 
principal feeders of Upper Loch Torridon are the Torridon, which flows 
into its head, and the Balgay, which issues from Loch Damph and falls 
into its southern side. The former of these streams runs out of Loch- 
an-Aisgich, so named from its abounding in fish. 
