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iij-fishing. And in the Rhine, in Switzerland, and 

 its tributary streams, I have never seen a salmon rise. 

 I once hooked a fish, under the fall at Schafl'hausen, 

 which, in my youthful ardour, I thought was a 

 salmon, but it turned out to be an immense chub 

 a villanous and provoking substitute. Our islands, 

 as far as I know, may claim the superiority over 

 all other lands for this species of amusement. In 

 England it is, however, a little difficult to get a 

 day's salmon fishing. The best river I know of is 

 the Derwent, that flows from the beautiful lake 

 of Keswick; I caught once, in October, a very 

 large salmon there, and raised another ; but it is only 

 late in the autumn that there is any chance of sport, 

 though I have heard the spring salmon fishing 

 boasted of. At Whitwell, in the H odder, I have 

 heard of salmon and sea trout being taken but I 

 have never fished in that river. The late Lord 

 Bolingbroke caught many salmon at Christchurch ; 

 but a fish a week is as much as can be expected 

 in that beautiful, but scantily stocked, river. Small 

 salmon and sea trout, or sewens, as they are called in 

 the country, may be caught after the autumnal floods, 

 I believe, in most of the considerable Welsh, Devon- 

 shire, and Cornish streams; but I have fished in 

 many of them without success. The Conway I may 

 except ; this river, in the end of October, will some- 



