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known Kilnsey Crag forming a striking feature in the landscape. 

 Good fare and comfortable accommodation are to be had at the head- 

 quarters of the Club the Tennant's Arms at Kilnsey. Strangers 

 are allowed to purchase day-tickets. The river next passes the 

 villages of Grassington and Burnsall, flows past Barden Tower, and 

 enters the enchanting wood of Bolton Abbey, one of the estates of 

 his Grace the Duke of Devonshire. Here the fishing is good, the 

 Trout being numerous, but the river being hard fished they run 

 small. Grayling are also found, but they are not very numerous. 

 Strangers can procure permission to fish by taking up their quarters 

 at the Devonshire Arms Hotel, or Red Lion Inn. Even if not 

 always successful in filling a creel, the true sportsman (who should 

 be a lover of nature) will be the better for a day spent in this 

 delightful locality. He will have something like nine miles of 

 river to ramble along ; may meditate as he passes the ruins of Bolton 

 Abbey, or rest awe-stricken as he watches the foaming waters of the 

 far-famed Strid. From below Bolton Bridge to the market-town of 

 Otley (in which course it passes the villages of Ilkley, with its 

 Hydropathic establishment, and Burley), the river is preserved by 

 the various landed proprietors, and the gentlemen resident on their 

 estates, viz., C. L. Kay, Christopher Dawson, Peter Middleton, 

 Edward Ackroyd, John Horsfall, Esquires, and others. At Otley 

 an Anglers' Club is established; F. H. Fawkes, Esq., of Farnley 

 Hall, having kindly given up his portion of the river, extending, 

 with slight exceptions, from this town through Pool to Arthington 

 and Castley, into the hands of the Club, under certain restrictions, 

 such as using salmon roe, selling the fish, &c. Here day-tickets 

 are issued to strangers at small charges. This part of the river 

 would abound with fine Trout and Grayling, could the poachers be 

 effectually checked and thus prevented sending the fish to the Leeds 

 market every week or fortnight in great numbers. The river next 

 enters the domains of the Earl of Harewood, through whose kind 

 permission an Anglers' Club has been established, called the Hare- 



