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sort. We need not, therefore, notice them 

 further. 



Some of the chief rivers of LANCASHIRE are 

 rendered unfit for piscatory purposes, on account 

 of the numerous manufacturing- establishments 

 situated on their waters. 



The Lune rises in the mountainous parts of 

 Westmorland, and enters Lancashire at Kirby- 

 Lonsdale. It receives the Greta, and the 

 Wenning, in both of which there is a fair 

 sprinkling of small trout, which can be obtained 

 after summer freshets, either by worm or 

 minnow. 



There is good fishing in the Lune, take 

 altogether, both for salmon and trout. The flies 

 that are commonly used by the anglers on its 

 banks, are chiefly winged ones, and of a lightish 

 colour, particularly during the summer months? 

 and after floods. The best districts of the Lune 

 for the regular fly-fisher, are those which lie 

 between Kirby - Lonsdale and Hornby, near 

 which the Wenning enters. The streams are, in 

 this locality, of twelve or fourteen miles extent, 

 of the finest kind for agreeable sport, while the 

 country scenery in every direction is pleasing 

 and delightful. 



The Ribble, rising in Yorkshire, flows through 



