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interesting. Both fly and minnow may be used in these 

 waters with every prospect of tolerable success. 



BELGIUM. 



THERE is no trout-fishing to be got at Ostende; and the 

 angler's sport is therefore confined solely to pike, perch, 

 bream, gudgeon, bleak, and other fish of a similar 

 description, which frequent still and deep placid waters. 

 To those who take pleasure in this kind of fishing, the 

 water about Ostende will afford very respectable recrea- 

 tion. The quiet waters round the fortifications are full 

 of large perch and pike ; and any person is permitted to 

 fish without any restriction or interruption. The canal 

 which goes up to Bruges that which passes within 

 four miles of the town en route for Dunkerque and 

 another, which runs near Oudenberg, are the best places 

 for this kind of angling. Mr. Dalton, an English gentle- 

 man long resident in Ostende, is a most persevering 

 angler; and attacks pike, perch, roach, etc., with great 

 skill and remarkable success. 



Ostende is not a place of any very high antiquity. The 

 Spaniards subjected it to the horrors of a siege in 1601, 

 which lasted three years, during which the whole town 

 was reduced to a mass of ruins. 



The fishing at Bruges is precisely similar to that which 

 is to be obtained at Ostende. The canals which intersect 



