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were almost equally good ; but this list is independent of 

 fish taken by friends or by my fisherman, the weight of 

 which was about as great. It is farther to be observed, that 

 following the custom of the country, we classed the smaller 

 trout, or those weighing a pound or two, as Oring, or trout, 

 and the larger, or those of from eight to ten pounds or 

 upwards, as Lax, or salmon ; as also, that the weights were 

 Swedish, which are about six per cent less than ours. 



Fish. 



120 heavy Trout (Lax) . 



75 smaller Trout (Oring) 



15 Perch . . . 



364 Pike . ,., '. ./< . 



1 Pike-perch -'..'.- . 



5 Ide 



580 



Ibs. 



1796 



201 



15 



827 



4 



21 



2864 



But as respects fishing, it is not likely Ronnum will ever 

 again see those palmy days, for the waters thereabouts are 

 now either open to every one, or insufficiently protected ; 

 and what is worse, where there was formerly a single fisher- 

 man, there are now multitudes. 



