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of Switzerland, but within the French territory, for more 

 than seventy miles. This large stream receives several 

 rapid feeders; and both it and its tributaries afford very 

 good fishing waters, the trout being good in quality, fair 

 in size, and pretty numerous. Towards the source of the 

 Doubs, the streams are very fine, sparkling, arid rippling; 

 and here the light fly will tell, when the waters are in 

 good order and the fish moving, with certain and 

 astonishing effect. 



Chalons-sur-Saone is a fine old town. Its antiquity 

 is undoubted, for Caesar made it his principal magazine 

 of grain for his legions, when prosecuting his victories 

 in Gaul. The situation of the town is very beautiful 

 and striking, the surrounding country fertile and well- 

 cultivated, and all its churches and public-buildings 

 remarkably well-built, and well worthy of notice. The 

 Saone becomes navigable at this point; and steam-boats 

 run daily for Lyons, and other intermediate places on the 

 river. The stream is now too large and expansive to be 

 commanded by the rod of the angler, and, on account of 

 the incessant traffic on its bosom, will cease to afford him 

 the desired enjoyment: he must, therefore, seek the more 

 narrow and inconsiderable waters which run into the 

 parent river at divers points in its course, in order to 

 obtain the full gratification of his art. 



About ten or a dozen miles below Chalons-sur-Saone, 

 the river receives the contents of the Seille, a small 

 stream, which traverses a space of about forty miles from 

 its source. The principal town which the Seille flows by 

 is Louhans, a small place pleasantly situated, in the im- 

 mediate neighbourhood of which there are many remains 

 of Koman antiquities. The Seille is a good water for 

 trout; but far better above Louhans than below it. 



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