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tion due north and souths extending many miles. This 

 cloud- bank remains for a period of either three, seven, 

 or ten days stationary over head until the wind changes, 

 when it instantly breaks up. In the valleys this wind 

 is boisterous enough in all conscience, but on the fells 

 it forms a whirlwind and frequently lifts ricks and 

 sheep as if they were scraps of paper ; in fact when 

 the wind makes its appearance the flocks are generally 

 driven down from the fells to escape its violence. 



We like an east wind for salmon-fishing, for it has 

 generally given us sport, especially in the spring-time ; 

 and the wilder and rougher the weather, the more we 

 like it for catching fish. 



In the autumn it is rather a different matter, as apart 

 from the question of the fish taking, a wind is pretty 

 certain to bring down the leaves in such numbers as to 

 ruin any chance of sport, and frequently we have been 

 obliged to desist from this cause alone ; they are as 

 great a nuisance to the angler in autumn as kelts are 

 in spring fishing ; it is difiicult to decide which is the 

 worse — perhaps the former, as it is impossible to avoid 

 them. 



