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and then descend the river, and work all its tributary 

 streams, which abound more or less with trout of an 

 excellent quality and fair size. The best flies are the 

 May-fly, the red palmer ribbed with gold twist, the 

 black gnat, and the vermilion palmer. In July, the black 

 body and yellow drake wing is a killing fly. 



The length of the Lianne, from its source near Lot- 

 tinghen to Boulogne, is about twenty miles. The follow- 

 ing are the principal villages on its banks, where the 

 angler will find good accommodation: Bournonville, 

 Wirwignes, Questrecques, Hesaigneul, and Isque. 



This modern fashionable watering-place, so crowded 

 with English as to wear the appearance of an English 

 town, was well-known to the ancients under the name of 

 Gesoriacurn; and was, at this period, a small town or 

 fortress in possession of the Morini. In the year 50, A.C., 

 Pedius, the father of Julius Caesar, constructed on a hill 

 or mound opposite Gesoriacum, a city to which he gave the 

 name of Bononia. This was the port from which Caesar 

 is supposed by some to have started on his expedition for 

 the conquest of Britain. In the year 88'2, Boulogne was 

 besieged by the Normans, and was captured after a long 

 and desperate resistance; the inhabitants were all put to 

 the sword, its houses destroyed by fire, and all its walls 

 and defences completely overthrown. In 1347 our own 

 Edward 111. attempted to reduce the town; but his attack 

 proved unsuccessful; at a later period Henry V1I1. in 

 six weeks, and after' eight desperate assaults, got posses- 

 sion of the town ; and it remained in the hands of the 

 English until the year 1550, when it was redeemed by 

 the French for the sum of four hundred thousand 

 crowns. 



Every body now-a-days is familiar with Boulogne, but 

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