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land without detention or payment ; but had better 

 be left in Finland to await one's return if a visit to 

 St. Petersburg is contemplated, but there is no very 

 large amount of small game discoverable. Passports 

 must be given up at the steamboat office in Sweden 

 when booking, and are asked for again at the hotels in 

 Eussia. From what we heard about Eussia before 

 starting we thought of procuring parchment docu- 

 ments, if cast iron was not available, which would 

 resist the anticipated handling by officials, and might 

 with impunity be stamped, pricked, punched, dog's- 

 eared, pulled, signed, rumpled, and examined. Dur- 

 ing a tour of two months, however, through the 

 Grand Duchy, this essential paper was not called for 

 more than three times, including arrival and depar- 

 ture ; nor was any objection made to the gun. 



Finland has a tourist club, and the agent at 

 Uleaborg writes to us as follows : 



" I am very glad to hear that you had good sport. 

 Here has been since you left an Englishman of the 

 name Smith ; he vas an angler of the very best ; he 

 did get a good deal of pike (gddda) and harr (grayling], 

 as much as 30 or 40 in a schort times ; it vas a pity 

 that he did not have his salmon rod vith him. He 

 said that he had heard that salmon angling vas not 

 tolerated, and it vas true ; you recollect what trouble 

 we had to get you a license. Now, it is different. 

 I vas at the meeting of the schareholders of the salmon 

 fischery in the river Uleo, the 2nd July, at 11 A.M., 

 and there I did my best to get a dicession about the 



