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smolts or smelts, as the salmon-fry ready to 

 migrate are called here, as for trout. And, 

 that you may not be disappointed, pray consider 

 angling secondary to seeing the vale and 

 having the enjoyment of exercise in the open 

 air, and by the river side in this pleasant 

 weather. You, if you please, follow the 

 stream ; I will take the contrary course. 



AMICUS. I have come in before you, having had 

 but little success, and finding that the valley 

 became tamer the farther I went. You had pre- 

 pared me for little angling sport, and it could 

 hardly have been worse ; for I have taken only 

 four smolts and two small trouts. Nevertheless, 

 I have passed the time not unpleasantly; 

 besides now and then stopping at a farm house, 

 the two or three that were near the river, for 

 curiosity sake, I rested awhile to indulge the 

 same feeling in examining my captured fish. Of 

 the smolts, two I found were males and two 

 females ; the milts in the former were very 

 narrow, as if shrunk, after having been emptied 

 of their fluid contents ; the roes in the latter 

 were very small and granular. The largest of 



