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trout called the souen*, which when in season is a rival 

 to the trout. As there was no grouse shooting within 

 some miles of my friend's residence, he recommended 

 that I should go with Mr. B., who was also a sportsman 

 and an inmate of his house, to the village of Lampeter, 

 distant about twenty miles in Caermarthenshire. He 

 informed us that we should meet with a small inn there, 

 in which we should find ourselves comfortably lodged, 

 and the host and hostess attentive and obliging, and in 

 the neighbourhood a considerable extent of moors and 

 grouse hills, on which, although not preserved, we 

 should have some tolerable shooting, and good trout 

 fishing in the Tivey. We accordingly started for Lam- 

 peter a day or two before the 12th, in order to obtain 

 some information about the shooting, and to reconnoitre 

 the hills. On our arrival at our quarters at Lampeter, 

 we found ourselves very comfortably lodged, and the 

 character given of our landlord and landlady was fully 

 verified. Excellent Welsh mutton, salmon and trout 

 from the Tivey, and mild home-brewed ale, were some 

 of the good things which the hostess provided for our 



* Tlie way of catching salmon in the riyer Tivey, some miles above 

 Cardigan, was rather curious, and peculiar to these parts. Two fisher- 

 men, each seated in the middle of his corricle, and being at a distance 

 of some yards from each other, the rope of a net is fastened to the side 

 of each corricle, and with a paddle the fishermen direct their course 

 down the stream. As soon as they feel they have a salmon in their net, 

 they close, and paddle to the banks of the river to land theu- fish. The 

 corricle was in shape like a large tub, the framework which is of wood 

 is light, and covered with the hide of an ox. Much skill and practice 

 is required to prevent their being upset when you get into them, which 

 I found from experience, for on endeavouring to get into one, it instantly 

 upset, and I got a ducking to the no small amusement of the ladies and 

 bystanders. When the men leave off fishing, they take their corricles 

 out of the water, and carry them home on their backs. 



