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A rapid it is, or a series of rapids, rather 

 than a fall. In some heights of water fish 

 can ascend it, but in order to facilitate the 

 ascent, two short ladders have been blasted 

 out of the rock. Between the two main 

 rapids, which are thus rendered easy to sur- 

 mount, lies a small pool, deep and turbid, in 

 which fish break their upward journey. It is 

 not suitable for fishing with a fly. Below the 

 Fos is a great pool, to all appearance another 

 Lervik, but in practice somewhat belying its 

 looks ; and below that a gentler stream, in 

 which, as it deepens on the left bank under 

 some trees, big fish often lie, and will some- 

 times take. These two pools I try in vain ; 

 the river is low and the water warm, and 

 probably the fish are cooling themselves in 

 the white foam beneath the Fos. So we land 

 and eat our supper with the rest of the party, 

 who have come up by road. Meantime Anders 

 is peering into the ladders, and the small holes 

 in the Fos. Suddenly he beckons with a 

 mysterious air, and points to the mid-Fos 

 pool already mentioned. We crawl to his 

 side, and looking cautiously over the precipi- 

 tous rock, we see below us and within a few 



