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waters. Some of them occasionally lose their 

 way and run up strange rivers, perhaps in company 

 with the natives of those rivers. Local fishermen 

 detect strangers at a glance when they meet them, 

 and I have frequently had them pointed out to me. 

 The followinof is a notable instance. There are 

 three rivers in the south of Norway, the Lyngckil, 

 the Mandal, and the Ovinesdal, that flow into the 

 North Sea, about twenty miles distant from each 

 other. The shape and condition of the salmon that 

 frequent these rivers are so distinctly different that 

 you can tell directly to which river they belong. 

 The Qvinesdal specimen is a lanky, ill-proportioned 

 fish, hardly differing in appearance from an ill- 

 mended kelt. The Lyngdal salmon is a handsome 

 well-made-up fish, but cannot be compared with a 

 Mandal salmon, which in shape and symmetry is 

 somewhat similar to a Shannon fish, the king of all 

 salmon, as far as shape and condition are concerned. 

 During the five years I fished the Lyngdal I some- 

 times caught several unmistakable Mandal and 



