COLLOQUY II. 



Mountain Tarns. Tarn Fishing. Scenery 

 and Incidents. 



AMICTJS. 



EEE we are at last at Goodie Tarn, 

 and though it is not a perfect spe- 

 culum Diana, it reminds me in its 

 form and mirror-like surface of that 

 celebrated one at Albano, and yet how different 

 are the accompaniments of the two. Here we 

 are in profound solitude, not a vestige of human 

 art apparent, or of man except a trace of his 

 footsteps, of some angler's like ourselves im- 

 pressed on the peaty ground. 



PISCATOK. Truly the accompaniments are dif- 

 ferent. From the Italian tarn, or rather I should 

 say from its elevated crater-like margin, the 

 majestic dome of St. Peter's is in sight, the 

 triumph of modern architecture, and on the 

 intervening campagna, the old Koman aque- 

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