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latter projects a considerable distance. Over the brink, 

 from a height of ninety-nine feet, comes an unbroken 

 column of water, at the back of which is a footpath, so that 

 the cascade may be viewed on every side. In the great 

 frosts of 1739 and 1749, and also this year (1879) icicles so 

 arranged themselves round the falling stream as to make 

 a huge tube, through which the water was seen to flow. 

 Again pursuing our course up the main river, we come to 

 a point at which Widdale beck joins it. Passing up this 

 stream, we come immediately to the village of Appersett. 

 I consider this to be one of the best of the tributaries of 

 the Yore for trout. With a fair quantity of v/ater there 

 is sure to be sport in this beck, when the trout are doing 

 nothing lower down in the Yore. Last year, I found, 

 when fishing up to this beck, that the fish would not run 

 in the Yore. I fished a short length of this tributary, and 

 took half a dozen nice fish in a short time, one of them 

 being a pound in weight. If I had not been obliged to 

 leave to catch a train, I am sure I should have made a 

 heavy basket by fishing up the Gill as far as Snaizholme 

 Bridge, a point at which another good beck joins the one 

 spoken of, and which is also well-stocked with trout. 

 The distance from Appersett is about two miles. A 

 Hawes angler caught a trout just below Snaizholme 

 Bridge weighing two and a half pounds. 



Fishing higher up the main stream again for a mile or 

 so we come to a capital beck on the north bank. Cotter 

 beck, a good trout-stream. I have fished a short length 

 of it and have killed fish in the Force Pool. Cotter Force 

 consists of a beautiful series of falls, in which the water 



