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12 Angling Travels in Norway. 



With successive snowfalls as above described, the 

 angling prospects are of good promise, yet they are by 

 no means assured ; various courses of events, as regards 

 weather and temperature, may easily occur to mar the 

 brightest hopes. 



In one case, continued rainfall may melt the supply 

 of snow en bloo, flooding the rivers, and then leaving 

 them at summer level, with little chance of improvement 

 for that season. On the other hand, the temperature 

 during the summer months may be so low that much 

 snow remains unmelted, and the rivers, thus deprived of 

 supplies, soon fall in. Or, in a third case, long-continued 

 hot summer weather may melt the snow, and bring about 

 one continued flood, and then leave the river entirely 

 dependent upon rain for further supply. These are the 

 conditions which militate against the fulfilment of initiatory 

 promise, and complications of them may easily arise. 



With the advent of warmer temperature, the thick 

 coatings of ice, which for so long a period have clothed 

 the rivers and watersheds, will commence to give and 

 break up, and pile one upon another as the stream impels 

 them to the fjords. 



The huge masses grind and crash against the banks 

 and other obstructions, giving signal to the country-folk 

 to witness the annual spectacle. 



By the middle of May, this country, which for so 



