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in the fish with regard to the exact colour 

 and make of the fly, which is common in most 

 lakes hut very remarkable here; a shade of 

 difference in the feather, a bit of tinsel, or 

 different body, is sufficient, often, to render a 

 fly taking or the reverse ; and as to what the fly 

 will be no one knows till the day comes ; they 

 are of all sorts. I have found a small March 

 brown, or Grouse, or Partridge hackle, and the 

 Yellow dun, as a general rule, the favourites. 



There is at times, after rain in the autumn, 

 excellent sewin fishing in the Dysyni, which 

 runs from the lake to the sea, a distance of about 

 twelve miles. About six miles below Tal-y-llyn, 

 on this river, is a noted rock called the ( Bird 

 rock,' a high beetling cliff, which being inacces- 

 sible to beings without wings, is the abode of 

 'birds of prey to an incredible extent, in parti- 

 cular of cormorants, who come there to roost in 

 numbers of two or three hundred. Sportsmen 

 frequently make excursions from Tal-y-llyn to the 

 Bird Eock with rifles, to wait the return of these 

 birds in the evening from their distant feeding 

 grounds; and as they come sailing home to their 

 high nests, they afford good sport for ball 

 practice. 



High up the mountains, on the ascent to 

 Cader Idris is a small lake,, the trout of which 



