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the fishing) art has been most judiciously employed in 

 banking up the river by means of weirs, the result being 

 most satisfactory, especially from an angler's point of view. 

 Here will be found those long silent reaches which appear 

 to be a peculiarity of the Wye, and in which grayling 

 abound. The lower portion comprises broken water, 

 high banks, and deep pools, and is rather the home of 

 the trout than the grayling. The whole of these waters 

 are fishable if a ticket be obtained either at Rowsley's 

 famous old inn, the " Peacock," or at the sign of the 

 "Rutland Arms" at Bakewell. 



Of Haddon's classic vale, through which our water 

 meanders, a word must be said ; for I take it that a true 

 angler and worthy disciple of our common master is also 

 a true lover of the beautiful in Nature. Visit the Wye at 

 whatever season you please, the valley will charm you with 

 its beauty. Though on our October day the emerald 

 brightness of spring is not to be seen, and though the 

 golden sheen of summer is gone, yet the autumn tints 

 are there ; and though the birds of summer have departed, 

 the watchful heron and ever-wary wild-fowl will keep us 

 company. The fair landscape will fill us with rapture — 

 winding stream, fertile plain, wooded copse, hills crowned 

 with verdure, and, closing in the scene, the time-honoured 

 towers of Haddon. Are you an angler-naturalist.-' The 

 wealth of insect life (your quarry's food) that swarms 

 around, will reward your thoughtful gaze. Are you with 

 antiquarian thoughts imbued } The shades of the mighty 

 dead from far past feudal times will accompany you in 

 your musings, or more honoured still, the form of Dorothy 



