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he will frequently in the summer and autumn earn many days which 

 will henceforth and for ever be laid up in the storehouse of memory 

 amongst his treasures, 



Having premised thus much, we will start vid Glasgow for Sligo, 

 and, if the reader will draw a line from the latter town to Galway, 

 he will find we have given him the whole of Mayo and a comer of 

 county Sligo as the district in which to make his 



FmsT Angling Toub. 



Lough Gill lies close to the town of Sligo, and affords good salmon 

 angling in the spring. Permission is given on application. Hotels 

 excellent. Private lodgings can be obtained. 



Ballisadare River is about five miles distant, and yields admirable 

 salmon and grilse-fishing from May to the end of the season. The 

 present proprietor has, we hear, built a comfortable sporting-lodge, 

 and proposes to let the angling and house for 100^. per annum, a 

 moderate sum if the equivalents are taken into consideration. 



The Eashey is well worth a visit in summer or autumn ; the 

 Great Western coach-road to Ballina crosses the stream. 



The Moy affords the best free angling in the kingdom. In the 

 latter part of April this river will well repay the sportsman, though 

 his journey cost him time and money. At this season he will meet 

 only with salmon, the grilse not arriving until about the 15th of 

 June. Should he wish for more general angling. Lough Conn, 

 whilst holding the king of fish, will afford admirable sport in 

 trolling. The lake abounds with heavy trout, pike, and perch. 

 Pontoon is about an hour's drive from Ballina, and should on 

 no account be neglected. In June the grilse throng into the Moy, 

 and the sport is as good above as below the weirs. The hotel is 

 very comfortable, and private lodgings can be obtained. Should 

 the tourist follow the coast road from this place to Belmullet, he 

 will cross several small streams which, if taken at the fall of a 

 fresh, may afford good white trout fishing in the autunm. Con- 

 tinuing his course along the shores of Black Sod Bay he reaches the 

 debouchment of 



