CHAPTER VI 



THE UPPEK HIVER 



<e To waft a feather, or to drown a fly." 

 Yor.\, Xiyht 



WHEN the salmon emerge from the ladder 

 they enter a tranquil stream, gliding with that 

 exaggerated smoothness which often seems to 

 precede a great fall. Ascending, they find them- 

 selves in deeper water, and a hundred yards 

 higher up the river runs twenty-five feet deep 

 through a narrow channel, which is spanned by 

 a bridge. In hot weather and low water fish 

 may often be seen lying in these depths, where 

 probably the temperature is slightly lower than 

 on the sun-warmed surface. 



As we proceed upwards from the bridge the 

 river makes a rectangular bend to the north, 

 and forms a large pool, which is known to us 

 as Os Pool. The river is broad here and the 

 pool not very well defined. Fish frequent dif- 

 ferent parts of it in different states of water. 

 In very high water many lie close to the right 



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