10 FLY-FISHING. 



The country is beautifully bold and wild,* close to 

 the magnificent mountains called the " Twelve Pins." 

 The mail-road from Galway to Clifden runs through 

 Connemara. There are grouse and woodcocks, and 

 numbers of hares : the former would be much more 

 abundant if the vermin were destroyed; the eagles 

 and sea-crows also destroy the game. The peasantry 

 throughout this wild district are a very quiet and inof- 

 fensive race, and most grateful for the least kindness 

 shown to them. Most of the lakes in this district 

 abound in white trout, as well as with a very small 

 trout, called by the natives " brown trout " or " Gub- 

 whanehs." They look like the common trout of the 

 English rivers, but I never saw any more than five or 

 six inches long : they are excellent eating. There is 

 also a large lake trout, something like the English 

 trout, but 1 never caught more than two, which I took 

 with a white-trout fly ; one weighed six pounds, the 

 other eight. 



To show what may be done, by perseverance, to 

 increase the number of salmon, I cannot do better 



* See Appendix, S. 



