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at its own will along the track, at a steady five miles 

 an hour, for the brown face of the boy had also been 

 burnt a shade and a half darker since the morning. 



I now wish to describe the sport and travel we 

 experienced in the southern portion of the country 

 nearer to St. Petersburg, which is, in other words, the 

 south-eastern corner of the Grand Duchy of Finland. 

 But first we travelled from Uleaborg up the Great 

 Uleo Eiver, and across the interior of Finland to the 

 Eussian capital. I will only say in reference to the 

 Uleo as a salmon river, that excellent angling, both 

 with fly and bait, can be had upon the upper portion 

 below the large Uleo lake, provided one is there at 

 the proper time, which everyone agrees in saying is 

 August and the first half of September, up to the date 

 on which the fishing closes, which is the fifteenth. 

 The railway, which has now been completed to Ulea- 

 borg, is the most northerly connected railway system 

 in the world, and it may not be out of place to remark 

 that English is spoken by almost all the educated 

 persons at Uleaborg, many of whom are old sea 

 captains ; there are also plenty of persons who will 

 gladly act as interpreters for a very modest sum. 



The price of an angling permit for the season for 

 salmon, upon the angling portion of the river, has 

 hitherto been ten marks, as fixed by a committee of 

 the peasants themselves, to whom the right belongs. 

 The first twenty-five miles of the river upwards from 

 Uleaborg can be done in a small steamer, which leaves 

 daily from Muhos, where the above-mentioned licence 



