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ent, as it pours itself with tremendous 

 force from the heights above, and now 

 and then a silvery streak shoots up- 

 wards, only to be beaten down again into 

 the seething pool. Silvery flashes in the 

 sunlight, the fish follow one another in 

 quick succession, leaping against an im- 

 possible barrier, charging the force of 

 the flood that ever hurls them back, re- 

 turning again and again with renewed 

 vigour, burning with that mad desire to 

 go they know not where. Now a big 

 fellow has reached a ledge of black, slimy 

 rock. By some extraordinary means he 

 " holds on " for an instant, but a volume 

 of water knocks him down, and his white 

 under parts gleam in the sun as he falls. 

 Still, he tries again ; the impulse within 

 him is strong, but the force of the fall 

 is stronger. 



For how many centuries have past 

 races of sewin worked their way up the 

 surging miles of this rocky river until 



