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is a creditable and by no means useless work, 

 it is not sufficiently full and detailed to be of 

 much help to a stranger. 1 No one will be far 

 wrong in going to Normandy for trout-fishing 

 in spring or the early summer; but he will 

 find in the autumn the country hot and dusty, 

 and the sport poor. If he wants the best trout 

 or grayling fishing, he will not wander about 

 the Black Forest, though in a lake such as the 

 Schluch See he may have excellent pike-fishing. 

 But in many parts of Switzerland fair trout- 

 fishing may be obtained, and in the lakes and 

 rivers of Southern Germany or of Northern 

 Italy trout and grayling may be taken in 

 abundance. Again, one for whom the study of 

 ichthyology has any attractions can scarcely 

 fail to find much to interest him when wan- 

 dering through Europe fishing-rod in hand. 

 Not only are there the trout and grayling, with 

 whose habits we should be so familiar, to study 

 in new localities, but in many of the lakes of 



1 Wegweiser fiir Angler durch Deutschland, Oesterreich, 

 und die Schweiz. Von Max von dem Borne. Berlin : 

 Verlag von Wiegandt, Hempel, und Parey : 1877. Some 

 information of use may occasionally be found in the 

 Deutsche Fisherei-Zeitung and in Dunker's Fisherei-Kal- 

 endar. Stettin : Herrche und Lebelung. 



