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' monia," which I have not now by me. Unless 

 ' such notice be found there, I shall doubt the fact, 

 ' for with the exception of one of his visits to this 

 4 country, I was usually here with him, and have 

 ' no recollection of such a circumstance occurring, 

 4 or of any subsequent mention of such on his 



* part. However this may be, some of the genlle- 

 4 men of the country have, I believe, for two or 

 4 three years past, practised this kind of fishing 

 4 with success, and two days since I followed their 

 4 example. 



' As far as I am aware, there is only one spot in 



* the neighbourhood where fish have been so taken. 

 4 About four miles to the south of this place, a 



* small river discharges itself into a creek or aestuary 

 4 which formerly extended about six miles inland, 

 ' but half of it has been reclaimed by carrying a 



* mound from shore to shore. Within about a 

 ' mile of the mouth of this creek, the main channel 

 ' of the tide and the river approaches the south 



* shore, and from the point which commands this 

 4 channel, the fly is used with murderous effect at 

 4 half ebb tide. Having a yatch and boats at my 

 4 disposal, I anchored the latter two days since in 



* the channel, and I never saw men so astonished as 

 ' some of my Harwich sailors were with the spec- 

 4 tacle which presented itself, as they had never 

 4 seen a salmon, except on a fishmongers stall. The 

 4 air rather than the water was alive with salmon, 



