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fishing always after great floods, but in fine and dry 

 weather it is of little use to try. I have hooked 

 twenty fish in a day, after the first August floods, in 

 this river; and, should sport fail, the celebrated 

 Giant's Causeway is within a mile of its mouth, and 

 furnishes to the lovers of natural beauty, or of geo- 

 logical research, almost inexhaustible sources of 

 interest. The Blackwater, at Lismore, is a very good 

 salmon river : and the Shannon, above Limerick and 

 at Castle Connel, whenever the water is tolerably high, 

 offers many good casts to the fly-fisher ; but they can 

 only be commanded by boats. But there is no 

 considerable river along the northern or western coast^ 

 — with the exception of the Avoca, winch has been 

 spoiled by the copper mines, — that does not afford 

 salmon, and, if taken at the proper time, offer sport to 

 the salmon fisher. — But it is time for us to return 

 to our inn. 



THE INK 



POIET. — Should it be a fine day to-morrow, I 

 think we shall have good sport ; the high tide will 

 bring up fish, and the rain and wind of yesterday 

 will have enlarged the river. 



HAL. — To-morrow we must not fish; it is the 

 Lord's day, and a day of rest. It ought likewise to 



