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'^ ^ ' PREFACE.. 

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The purpose of the following pages is to describe some 

 few districts, rivers, lakes, and fish of Norway with which 

 I am acquainted, and to indicate in what respects they 

 differ with those of the British Isles from an angler's 

 point of view. I have ventured to give some hints 

 upon the various methods of angling and its require- 

 ments, also upon the treatment of fish alive and dead, 

 which I trust may be of interest and service to naturalists 

 and sportsmen. 



In writing of a country, it is diflicult to omit mention 

 of her people, although one might prefer to avoid so 

 delicate a subject. » , * ^ 



" I like the people," is a phrase frequently uttered 

 by visitors to Norway, and probably expresses correctly 

 enough the British opinion of our Scandinavian neigh- 

 bours ; but it is rather a large order for individual 

 foreigners to declare that they like or dislike a whole 



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