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head) such will often be found replete with sport. Soma 

 streams increase but little, comparatively, at any time ; 

 unless we take into account those partial torrents of rain 

 which at times deluge particular spots, and, consequently, 

 do infinite damage. 



The same cause equally affects the colour of such wa- 

 ters, where the soil is composed of till, or any other 

 coloured earth. For the most part, the fishes in such 

 streams do not bite readily w r hile the impregnation con- 

 tinues ; but when the element begins to clear, either by 

 the colouring matter being passed away, or by its being 

 precipitated to the bottom, they then become ravenous, 

 and with good tackle, the angler may have excellent 

 diverson. 



Where there are many cern, or, as they are generally 

 called, grist mills, we usually find abundance of fishes 5 

 though, as already remarked, the millers will have their 

 share, let who will own the water ! This is owing to 

 two causes, namely, the perpetual supply of fresh water, 

 and the great abundance of subsistence the fishes receive 

 by means of the particles of flour, &c. either conveyed 

 by the wind, or swept out of such mills. 



The fishes, however, in all such streams, have pecu- 

 liar propensities j in some, they will only bite while the 

 mills are going j in others, they will not come near a 

 bait until the water comes to a stand 5 but the former is 

 by far the most prevalent. 



Under the aprons of mills, that is, where the water 

 comes from under the wheel over a flat piece of masonry, 

 or plank-work, the largest fishes generally resort -, keep- 

 ing on the watch, and darting furiously amid the impe- 

 tuous foaming rush of water, at whatever attracts j or, 



perhaps, 



