PART II. 



NORWEGIAN SKETCHES. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



SURENDAL. 



URENDAL will always be of peculiar 



interest to me, for in the River Siirna, 



from which the valley derives its 



name, I was entered to Norwegian 



angling. 



For the space of five and twenty 

 years previous to my visit to the waters of Norway, 

 my line had been cast in hard places throughout the 

 United Kingdom and the Peninsula, commencing with 

 the leathery -mouthed chub of the Thames ; then the 

 trout of Test, Itchen, Thames, Wye, etc. ; next the 

 salmon of the Tay, the Galway river, the Blackwater, 

 the Esk, Nith, Annan, Eden, Shannon, and many other 

 streams, lakes, and rivers. 



I have no inclination to depreciate the pleasure or value 



