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fishing was perfectly unrestricted throughout 

 Norway, and that if he gave half the fish killed 

 to the riparian owners, he was doing a gracious 

 act ; and he seems to have been astonished at 

 the rapacity of some of the landowners who 

 did not welcome him on these terms. Little 

 did he foresee the conditions under which his 

 successors fish to-day. This year in thirty- 

 three days fishing he killed 147 salmon and 

 grilse, and nine white trout, together amounting 

 to 1772 pounds. 



On leaving the Namsen, Belton visited some 

 of the rivers south of Trondhjem : but it was 

 now September, and his judgment on the 

 Orkla (one of the best rivers in Norway to-day), 

 that it "is not worthy of retaining an angler 

 for even a day from better streams " was given 

 on insufficient grounds. In the Rauma he 

 killed a fish of 21 Ib. He describes the river 

 as much netted and full of traps. His remarks 

 on other rivers are mostly at second-hand, 

 and of no great importance, but his book 

 generally is of interest and value as a picture 

 of sport and travel in Norway sixty-five years 

 ago. 



In 1842 Mr. John Milford published " Norway, 



