CHAPTER X. 



LAND-NOT NOT-VIND LAGG-N AT SKOTT-N AT PTJLS DREF-GARN C ASTIN G - 

 NET VIDE-MJARDE AL-KUPA CIRCULAR GARN-MJARDE PLAN OF 

 GILLR1NG FLAT-BOTTOMED MJARDE SANK-MJARDE RYSSJA VERKE 

 VETTE REF-LADA DRAGG KRAKA KLAPP VITTJE-HAF PLAN OF 

 BAITING HOOKS TRIMMERS. 



BESIDES the rod, we occasionally had recourse to other ex- 

 pedients to beguile the finny tribe. In Scandinavia the devices 

 for this purpose are very numerous; which is little to be 

 wondered at for, as in other pastoral countries, studded 

 with innumerable waters,* the inhabitants are, in degree at 

 least, dependant on fishing for support ; necessity, as a con- 

 sequence, has proved the mother of invention. Very many 

 of the expedients in question are probably known to us, but 

 some may be new, or brought into play differently ; and at 

 the risk, therefore, of tiring the patience of the reader, I 

 venture to enumerate such as came more or less under my 

 own observation. 



* M. af Forsell in his " Statistik ofver Sverige" informs us, that about a 

 tenth of the area of the Scandinavian Peninsula consists of lakes and rivers ! 



