240 THE NID AND THE STEENKJCER. 



We have then the Nid, which also empties itself into the 

 Drontheim fjord. 



This fine river is of great celebrity, and much execution 

 has at times been done in it by our countrymen. 



" Mr. Overston, the owner of the fishery," says Mr. 

 Charles Royd Smith, " took in our absence eleven good 

 salmon in three hours with the fly, which was great 

 work." 



The Honourable Richard Hutchinson, a first-rate fisher- 

 man, and amongst the most successful who have visited 

 Scandinavia, also testifies to the abundance of the fish in 

 the Nid. " One day," so he writes, " Mr. Overston and 

 I killed from the same boat either nineteen or twenty fish, 

 nine of which fell to my share. One weighed thirty- eight 

 pounds, a second nearly equalled him, and none of the rest 

 were under twelve pounds. I need not say all these were 

 taken with the fly." 



The next river of any consequence is the Steenkjrer, 

 situated at about two days' journey to the north of Dron- 

 theim. 



Though, owing to the rapids being somewhat limited, 

 and to sunken and floating timber, this river is spoken of 

 rather disparagingly by some, yet there are those of our 

 countrymen who have here enjoyed good sport. 



If report speaks truly, Mr. Buckle, in 1847, captured in 

 about a month eighty salmon, averaging fourteen pounds 

 each ; and Messrs. Rogers and Hunt, during the same or 

 following year, took no less than two hundred and six fish, 

 in the course of twenty-six days. 



I am told that there is a small pool immediately under 

 the Falls at Steenkjoer, where the miller, in 1849, killed 



