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the uick of time. Then that red-faced and irascible official 

 gave me a lesson in Welsh pronunciation, and vowed that I 

 had never asked for Llanfyllin. Neither had I, as he pro- 

 nounced it. Intending- visitors, note this fact. 



There is a lovely drive of twelve miles from Llanfyllin to 

 the lake, and, given fine weather, this portion of the 

 journey will be much appreciated by lovers of the pictur- 

 esque. Conveyances from the Lake Hotel meet visitors at 

 the station by appointment, and it would not be wise to 

 risk the chance of getting a vehicle at Llanfyllin, as it is a 

 very quaint little one-horse place, although it is a 

 chartered municipal borough. The drive, as I have said, 

 is a very pretty one, and, as the end of the journey is ap- 

 proached, there are some awkward places in the road that 

 you would not care to drive through on a dark night. 

 Dipping down into the valley of the river Yyrnwy, a merry 

 stream, about equal to the Dove, in the Dale, the expectant 

 angler finds himself in close proximity to the lake, but fails 

 to get a view of it until the height, on which stands the 

 liotel, is reached, and then you see stretched out before you 

 the panoramic view of this beautiful sheet of water. 



You, my angling friends, care little or nothing about who 

 made the lake, or how it was made ; it is a thing of beauty, 

 and it will, let lis hope, remain to the lovers of fly-fishing a 

 joy for ever. It fills a lovely valley, five miles long, with 

 mountains rising from the water's edge ; and no one would 

 imagine, to look at it, that this beautiful expanse of water 

 was artificially constructed. But such is the case ; and 

 how it was done, why it was done, and who did it, can all 

 be found in the records of the Corporation of Liverpool. 

 We fishermen are not interested in the details. What we 

 want — having arrived at our destination, and feasted our 

 eyes upon the glorious panorama of Yyrnwy valley — is to 

 make the acquaintance of the enterprising sportswoman 

 who has the pluck to develop the angling resources of tliis 

 fisherman's Eden, and then to test what she has done for the 

 creature comforts of those who pay Lake Y\Tnwy a visit. 

 Trust me, brother anglers, you will not be disappointed; 

 and do not be disconcerted either by the luxurious ap- 



