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PREFACE. 
In the first part of this little volume it will be my 
endeavour to make the reader acquainted with the 
resources which Norway offers to the angler and the 
sportsman. 
To do this the better, I have described each Amt 
(province) in turn; and have, moreover, as far as was 
possible, given the routes to the various rivers. 
Hitherto a certain degree of mystery has hung, as it 
were, over the salmon rivers of Norway, and erroneous 
reports have, in consequence, been circulated concerning 
them. 
These reports have assumed two opposite forms; the 
one, that every yard of water is leased, and is in 
the hands of Englishmen, and that a man ‘might as 
soon expect to get a seat in Parliament, as to obtain 
any salmon-fishing in Norway;” and the other, that 
he has nothing to do but to set foot in the country, 
