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passes, which is here divided into eleven different channels, 

 for the use and convenience of the manufactures of the 

 town. These divisions of the river derange the fishing very 

 materially, and oblige the angler to wander considerably 

 above or below the city, in order to procure any thing 

 like respectable sport. 



Amiens is, on many accounts, deserving of the stranger's 

 attention. Its famed cathedral its antique Hotel de Ville 

 and its public library, containing upwards of forty-five 

 thousand volumes, are interesting and impressive objects. 



In the canal of the Somme which encircles the town, 

 there are shoals of large pike, perch, roach, eels, etc., etc. 



From Amiens to St. Valery, the river becomes less 

 eligible for the angler; but there are large and fine trout 

 in this direction. The best method of catching them is 

 with the minnow. The country people declare, that 

 occasionally with their nets they obtain real trout twelve 

 or fifteen pounds in weight. We ourselves, however, 

 never saw any fish of this description in these waters. 



All the tributary streams of the Somme are decidedly 

 good ; and many of them flow a considerable distance from 

 their source before their junction with the parent river. 

 The Avre takes its rise at a village called Avricourt, a 

 few miles above the town of Roye, which is upon the 

 main route from Paris into Belgium; and, a short distance 

 below Mont-Didier, this stream is joined by another called 

 the Dom, which arises at Domfront, about three miles 

 above Roye. These are afterwards increased by the waters 

 of the Noye and Auregne, and then discharge their 

 waters into the Somme a little above Amiens. The 

 angler, therefore, can easily take all these streams in his 

 route from this city, and fish them either to or from their 

 respective sources with convenient facility, as the high 



