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shaped piece of lead, through which the gut 

 ran and thus connected the hook with the line. 

 Forty -seven years ago the same tackle was 

 used, for Sir Humphry Davy almost on this 

 very spot was struck by it. " A fisherman of 

 Aussee went with me," he writes in his diary. 

 " His flies had a hair link, too coarse ; his mode 

 of fishing with a minnow curious, and not bad, 

 had his tackle been finer a loop of lead, two 

 hooks ; the lead supplies the head, so that it is 

 the drop minnow reversed. He caught two 

 fish to my ten." A rude sketch in the margin 

 of the book can leave no doubt of the similarity 

 of the tackles. So little do the methods of 

 angling improve among these mountaineers. 



Very glad we were to find ourselves at length 

 at the Hotel Am See, which is within a stone's 

 throw of the water, as its name implies. The 

 Aussee is about a mile and a half long, and 

 half a mile in breadth, is surrounded by moun- 

 tains, and is quite 2000 feet above the sea. At 

 the north end the mountains retreat, and a 

 green slope, dotted here and there with trees, 

 touches the water of the lake, whilst to the 

 south the contrast is striking. Here the Aussee 

 is bounded by a magnificent amphitheatre of 



