2 12 Angling Travels in Norway. 



Below this is more broken water, and then an island 

 divides the river into two streams. The fish pass up by 

 the right-hand corner, and now and again one is killed 

 in it. . •-. ., : 



Now, two hundred yards of broken water gradually 

 subside into about one hundred yards of fast-running 

 stream. This, to my mind, is the best and most sport- 

 ing pool upon the two waters, and I reproduce an 

 article upon it which I contributed to Beijers Weekly 

 News : — 



"SALMON ANGLING. 



" The Saghoug Pool, Evanger River. 



"About midway between the stations of Evanger and 

 Biilken, upon the Vossevangen Railway, the passenger, if 

 he be not too much absorbed in the study of ' Beyer's 

 Norse and English Words and Phrases,' will observe that 

 the river is spanned by a. light suspension bridge, which 

 would appear to have l)een erected at this particular spot 

 in order that certain death might be the fate of any 

 being who, ])y accident or design, should fall overboard, 

 for surely not even the ])est of swimmers could live 

 through that boulder-bestrewn rapid. In contrast to this 

 torrent, the river for the space of nigh upon one hundred 

 yards aljove the l)ridge runs smoothly along witli ])ut 



