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recently, that he was going to that river this summer, chiefly 

 because he had heard of a salmon having been captured there 

 of such enormous dimensions, that when cut up it alone filled 

 a barrel ! 



But though several of our countrymen have visited this 

 river on which there are three or more established fisheries 

 during the past few years, I have not heard of their 

 meeting with any extraordinary sport, a circumstance attri- 

 butable, I believe, to freshes, &c. 



The Tana, according to M. Malm, the able Conservator 

 to the Gothenburg Museum, to whom I am indebted for 

 much valuable information, offers a fine field for the angler. 

 It is little likely he would meet with greater obstacles than 

 a few sovereigns would remove ; and if not elsewhere, he 

 would be sure to find comfortable quarters at the Parsonage 

 of Utsjoki, situated on one of its tributaries. 



Beyond the Tana again, is the Patsjoki, another fine river, 

 that has its source in the great lake Enare, in Russian 

 Lapland ; and still farther to the eastward is a smaller river, 

 called the Peise, both of which disgorge themselves into the 

 Icy Sea. 



These rivers so I am told by M. Malm, who resided for 

 some time in this part of Lapland abound with salmon ; and 

 being, I believe, untried, are well deserving the notice of 

 the adventurous sportsman. But as, independently of the 

 distance, they are within the Russian territories (no great 

 recommendation), few perhaps will think it worth while to 

 take so long a journey. 



Trout are also plentiful in almost all the Scandinavian 

 rivers, from Scania to Lapland ; but less so probably in the 

 larger rivers than in their tributaries, or in smaller streams. 



