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satisfaction for the rest of my stay. Whether 

 he ever got any of the rent I do not know. 

 It is doubtful. 



In another case within my knowledge, a long 

 stretch of river above a fos, which salmon were 

 never able to surmount, was let to Englishmen. 

 A ladder was projected, but not yet made. 

 The lessor netted a few fish below, and carried 

 them to the upper water, and on the strength 

 of this advertised and let it as a salmon 

 river. 



But the business has become too big a one 

 to be conducted any longer on these lines, and 

 I have no reason to doubt that the managers 

 of the Bergen syndicates are honestly anxious 

 to improve the fishing and to attract customers. 

 Certainly they have done good work in buying 

 off traps and nets ; with the result that certain 

 waters, until recently considered useless, are 

 now affording good sport. The rents asked 

 are very high. A perusal of an agent's cata- 

 logue leads me to the conclusion that they are 

 calculated on a basis of about seven and six- 

 pence per pound killed in the best of previous 

 seasons, and they have a decided tendency to 

 increase. 



