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one has therefore little chance of much sport. On the two 

 or three occasions of my visiting this river, indeed, I hardly 

 killed a fish. 



Crossing the Norwegian frontier, we come to the Glom- 

 men, a noble river emptying itself into the Christiania 

 fjord, near to the town of Fredrikstad. 



Salmon are, I doubt not, abundant in this river; but as 

 I never heard of any one meeting with much success, I 

 conclude the localities must be unfavourable for fishing. 

 Independently of other considerations, the quantity of 

 timber usually seen floating on the surface, in the earlier 

 part of the season at least an evil, as concerns the angler, 

 common to many of the northern rivers must be a great 

 obstacle to sport. 



The next river of moment is the Drams, flowing past the 

 well-known town of Drammen, which, like the Glommen, 

 empties itself into the Christiania fjord. 



Salmon are plentiful in this river, and numbers are 

 captured at an established fishery near to the hamlet of 

 Hogsund, situated at twelve to fifteen miles from the sea, 

 where a somewhat precipitous fall impedes the farther pro- 

 gress of the fish. But as with the Glommen, the localities 

 are not very favourable, and I never heard of much being 

 done there with the rod. 



Once when on a journey, I stopped at Hogsund for a 

 couple of hours ; but though I tried the pools below the 

 falls with moderately good flies, and there was abund- 

 ance of fish at the time, I had not a single rise. It 

 was, however, somewhat early in the season, and the freshes 

 not altogether run off, which might partly account for my ill 

 success. 



