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coast of Norway, up at least to the 62 or 63 of latitude. 

 But as I never heard of any one having heen very successful 

 hereabouts, I am inclined to believe they are not generally 

 favourable for salmon fishing. 



If this is really the fact, may it not be in consequence 

 of their descending, in many instances, directly from glaciers, 

 or from mountains covered with perpetual snow; or that 

 from the land rising so precipitously from the sea, their 

 course is too rapid to afford a fair field for the rod ? Such 

 at least appeared to me to be the case with the streams 

 near to Ej-fjord in the Bergen district, which I once visited, 

 though not on a fishing excursion. 



Beyond the latitude mentioned, however, the fisherman 

 will meet with rivers that can hardly fail to reward his 

 exertions. 



After crossing the Dovre-fjeld, the first of any great note 

 that he meets with is the Gula, which falls into the Dron- 

 theim fjord. 



This is a considerable river, and in high reputation with 

 salmon fishers. Several of my friends have done much 

 execution there ; amongst others, Captain Greene, of the 

 Royal Navy. He favoured me with an account of his 

 performances, but unfortunately the memorandum is lost. 

 Mr. Fosbrooke has also been very successful in the Gula. 

 I am unacquainted with his performances during other 

 seasons, but in that of 1843 he killed, he told me, 

 seventy-nine salmon, the largest of which weighed twenty- 

 eight pounds, 



The Gula was formerly an open river, but at present, like 

 many other Norwegian rivers, it is rented, and, as I under- 

 stand, for a series of years. 



