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less. It would be quite easy to remedy the evil, and the proof of this 

 is furnished every day by those riparian proprietors who have, with 

 the aid of private bailiffs, simply protected their own rivers. I may 

 perhaps be permitted to give a case in point. 



A POOL ON THE KLLEE 



About the year 1878 I was coasting along Brittany in my yacht 



Hagarene, the small tonnage of which enabled me to enter the tiniest 



harbours of that wonderful country. Chance brought 



me one day to the mouth of the river Ouimperle, close Kivers 



Scorff and 

 to a fishing hamlet called Pouldu. Sailing up the river, En^e. 



I noticed great nets drying in the wind, and I soon 

 learnt that plenty of salmon were caught in this river. This state- 

 ment was easily verified, for at the flood tide I saw the salmon leaping, 



