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satisfactorily the fisherman will require a 

 boat, which is easily procurable. This throw 

 is without dangers of any kind, and no one 

 can lose a fish once hooked in it, except from 

 his own fault. 



No. 2. Rose Isle. 



From Belleek Pool the water leaps over a 

 broad fall of inconsiderable depth, across the 

 head of which there is a safe ford ; it then 

 passes Rose Island, by a channel in length 

 about a hundred yards, over a perfectly 

 smooth limestone bottom, interrupted only 

 by three rocks in its course : these form its 

 principal dangers, but are indicated clearly 

 enough by the curling of the water. The 

 whole channel here is hardly more than 

 twenty yards in width, and in consequence 

 the rush of w T aters is prodigious. This is 

 Rose Isle Throw, at all times good, but par- 

 ticularly to be sought on a bright, still day, 

 when the other throws afford little or no 

 chance. Nevertheless, the difficulty of land- 

 ing the fish here is great ; the rapidity of the 

 water, the hidden rocks, and the confined 

 space (scarcely exceeding a hundred yards 



