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fishing. He has a commodious and safe boat, in which 

 he takes fishing parties into the marais for a mere trifle; 

 and we have uniformly found him a very civil and obliging 

 person. He is a bit of a wag withal. 



The fosses which surround St. Omer are full of fish; 

 and in them the angler may ply his art whenever he 

 pleases; but as they are let by the government, pike-fishing 

 is interdicted. 



The canal, which passes under the town to Lille, is full 

 of roach, bleak, and dace; and indeed, all the waters 

 about this town will afford abundance of sport to our 

 brethren of the craft. 



In St. Omer, the angler may provide himself with pure 

 horse-hair lines of a first-rate description, both as respects 

 make and quality. Monsieur Cuvillier, No. 27, Rue de 

 Dunkerque, keeps an article of this kind which cannot 

 be excelled. 



The marais afford excellent duck-shooting in the winter 

 far superior to that which Colonel Hawker witnessed 

 at Peronne ; and ponds and lakes can be hired for the 

 purpose at a very low rate. 



This river, which flows into the Dunkerque and Calais 

 canal at St. Omer, and at the same time feeds the exten- 

 sive marais of the district, has for many years afforded the 

 English resident gentleman an abundance of agreeable 

 recreation. It cannot, in strict language, be called a good 

 trout stream, inasmuch as its bottom is full of weeds, its 

 motion comparatively sluggish, and its lower waters gene- 

 rally turbid and discoloured; and yet, nevertheless, there 

 are immense numbers of trout taken out of it through the 



