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time fora man to find out a good stream or manor; and 

 that both these are to be found in Sweden, as well as in 

 Norway, I am pretty certain. Although I do believe 

 that, from some cause or other, of which we are ignorant, 

 the rivers running into the Bothnia or the Baltic, on the 

 eastern coast of Sweden, are none of them such good salmon 

 streams as those on the west coast of Norway, still I do 

 not think we are yet in a position to speak of their 

 capabilities, for so few of them have ever been tried, with the 

 rod and line in good hands. There are some capital falls in 

 both the Lulea and Tornea rivers, where we know that lots 

 of salmon run up ; and why should they not come up other 

 rivers, of which there are so many between Stockholm and 

 Tornea ? 



Respecting the Norwegian salmon rivers,! cannot do better 

 than quote the following excellent remarks from the pen of 

 a correspondent in "The Field" of August 20th, 1864; and as 

 they formed the conclusion of a capital description of a visit 

 to Norrland in 1863, we may rely upon their correctness. 

 He says : 



f ' From all I can gather, and have seen, I do not think 

 Norwegian salmon-fishing repays the trouble, and time, and 

 cost. The best rivers, as the Namsen and Alten, for 

 example, will give from 1200 Ib. to 1800 Ib. of salmon 

 a rod, and to catch this requires an absence from home of 

 at least three months. Any tolerably good Scotch river will 

 give as good results in the same time. The fishing is not at 

 all, in a general way, of the sort that I, as a sportsman, like. 

 It is nearly all particularly in the best rivers from a boat, 

 and I can make out but comparatively few rivers which are 

 fished from the shore. This is somewhat the fashion of the 

 rising generation of salmon-fishers : lounging back with his 

 legs well up, a huge regalia projecting like a bowsprit from his 

 bow incessantly, with the last horrible sensation novel in his 

 hand; he has a rod stuck over each side of the boat; and he is 

 rowed about, to and fro, backwards and forwards, until a 

 fish takes it into his head to seize one of the flies, when a 



