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Christiansand, but we were too late on it. It is larger than 

 the Topdal, and smaller than the Torresdal, and contains 

 five good stations, but they are a good way apart from the 

 first to the last, five Norwegian miles. The water is slightly 

 tinged. I did not catch enough fish on it to tell to a 

 certainty the flies, but I should say fur bodies, mixed wings, 

 and B or B B hooks. Many parts of this river may be 

 fished without a boat. 



There are two more rivers in this vicinity, but they are 

 of little use except during a wet summer. 



" Speaking generally of this part of Norway," Mr. New- 

 land farther remarks, " I should not come here again. The 

 fish run small; the largest we caught was under thirteen 

 pounds." 



Others of my friends, however, look upon the rivers in 

 question in a much more favourable light. Sir Hyde Parker 

 has, indeed, met with very considerable success in more than 

 one of them. 



And I have heard of a countryman, Mr. L , having 



done wonders hereabouts. Report says he one forenoon 

 took thirty-five salmon with the fly ; and that had he not 

 broken his arm or collar-bone by a fall, he would certainly 

 have landed fifty at the least by the evening. But whether 

 this success was achieved in the Mandal, or in the rivers 

 near to Christiania, I am in ignorance. 



Of the rivers hence to Stavanger, I know nothing farther 

 than that Mr. Francis Cholmeley, in a letter dated the 1st 

 of July, 1835, says: "From Mandal to this place the 

 whole country is full of fine streams, abounding with trout, 

 and a good many of them with salmon." 



I am also much in the dark as to the rivers on the western 



