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fish, — three of them large salmon, — in a short 

 morning's fishing : but now, except in spring 

 fishing, when the fish are little worth taking, 

 there is no certainty of sport in these rivers ; 

 and one, two, or three fish (which last is of 

 rare occurrence) are all even an experienced 

 angler can hope to take in a day's skilful and 

 constant angling. 



PoiET. — You have fished in most of the 

 salmon rivers of the north of Europe, — give 

 us some idea of the kind of sport they afford. 



Hal. — I have fished in some, but perhaps 

 not in the best ; for this it is necessary to go 

 into barbarous countries — Lapland, or the ex- 

 treme north of Norway ; and I have generally 

 loved too much the comforts of life to make 

 any greater sacrifices than such as are made 

 in our present expedition. I have heard the 

 river at Drontheim boasted of as an excellent 

 salmon river, — and I know two worthy anglers 

 who have tried it; but I do not think they 

 took more fish in a day than I have sometimes 

 taken in Scotland and Ireland. All the Nor- 

 wegian rivers that I tried (and they were in 

 the south of Norway) contained salmon. I 



