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you will find two excellent pools, and I advise you to 

 go no farther down to-day. If you take a fish 

 approaching 2 Ibs., keep him alive in the fish barrel 

 for crimping ; the smaller fish you can kill, and carry 

 with some rushes in your basket ; we shall at least be 

 able to send a dish of grayling to the patron of our 

 sport at Downton. 



NOON. 



HAL. Well, gentlemen, I hope you have been 

 successful. 



POIET. We have had good sport ; but I have been 

 for some time reposing on this bank, and admiring 

 the scene below. How fine are these woods ! How 

 beautiful these banks ! the hills in the distance 

 approach to the character of mountains; and the 

 precipitous cliff, which forms the summit of that 

 distant elevation, looks like a diluvian monument, and 

 as if it had been bared and torn by a deluge, which 

 it had stemmed. 



HAL It is one of the Glee hills, and its termina- 

 tion is basaltic, and such rocks usually assume such 

 forms. But though this spot is beautiful, to-morrow 

 I hope to show you a more exquisite landscape, 

 cliffs and woods, and gushing waters, of a character still 

 more romantic. We will return to our inn by a 



