DEEP WATER
Why is it, when it takes no more than six fed of water to cover the average man's head and he ma5' drown in almost a cupful, that the information that a particular lake or loch is 200 feet deep in par" sends a shiver along one's back? Stories of the toy plumbed depths always intrigued me when I was 3 boy, and at the moment I fish two lakes that have been sounded in parts deeper than 200 feet which, although there may be deeper waters elsewhere, i! enough to stimulate imagination. The exact depth 01 these lakes is not recorded, but the stories say that they are as deep as the crags above them, although why this should be so I cannot pretend to know. gentleman who came upon me while I was fishifit at the weekend said I was casting into the crater of 11 volcano, the shape of the surrounding cliffs sub', gesting this. He showed me quartz pebbles embeddee in volcanic rock and made me think about thing other than trout of six or seven pounds. `Ah,' say t natives, 'the devil haunts the deeps. It's not a nic place to be at night.' It isn't, and I don't care to stay after dusk, for there is nothing that overawe me so much as a black bit of water at nightfall.
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