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would compare with the Tay, Tweed, or Sol way rivers ; 

 while the smaller ones are about on a par, as regards 

 volume, with the Helmsdale, North Esk, etc., and then 

 come the really small streams which may be compared 

 with the sea-trout rivers of Wales and the west of 

 Scotland ; thus it is essential that the angler should be 

 acquainted with the size of his river before he " goes out," 

 in order that his tackle be suitable for the task in hand. 



In an ordinary summer, the heat of the sun's rays will 

 day by day melt sufficient quantities of snow and ice 

 to maintain the snow- and glacier-fed rivers in angling 

 trim until the end of July, or even later, and the 

 supply from these sources naturally depends upon the 

 temperature of the day and night. 



The produce of the day's sun will make itself apparent 

 towards evening, causing the river to rise a few inches 

 or several feet ; then, as the night passes away, the water 

 will again fall in until upon the following morning it 

 will be slightly below the level of that previous. But 

 if perchance the nights should be hot, the snow may 

 continue to melt throughout the four-and-twenty hours, 

 and the river in consequence be in a continual state 

 of flood, and thus the reserve of snow is not so economi- 

 cally used in the angler's interests as if the nights were 

 sufficiently cool to check it in melting. 



Towards the end of the season, as the stock of snow 



