CHAPTER V. 



jHE Dovey which divides Merioneth- 

 shire from Montgomeryshire is not 

 only one of the easiest, but the 

 prettiest of rivers I have ever fished in. So 

 numerous are the streams and pools, that 

 almost any amount of rods need never be at 

 a loss for full employment, without danger of 

 interfering one with another. That part of the 

 river for some miles above the stone-bridge, 

 is called the Upper water ; that below, the 

 Lower ; and of the latter there is not a more 

 picturesque bit of scenery, than the " Fir-tree 

 Pool," of which the accompanying sketch gives 

 the stranger a very correct idea. 



