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by twenty), and the great fall of Rose Isle 

 below it, give altogether a better chance of 

 losing than of landing the fish. As good a 

 plan as any, for a man of nerve and quickness, 

 is to stand at the lower end and urge the fish 

 down the fall ; but in this there is great 

 danger of cutting the line against the sharp 

 ridge. This throw is fished from the right 

 bank. 



The Short Throws. 



From Rose Isle Throw, the water passes 

 in one collected body down the falls, which 

 are, as it were, in two steps, with a turnhole 

 between them, and is finally received into a 

 magnificent basin, cut by its own force, in the 

 solid rock below. Its course then continues 

 through a succession of rapids for nearly a 

 mile, when it expands, on reaching more 

 level country, into a flat of several hundred 

 yards in width, and nearly, or quite, half a 

 mile in length, terminating in the Monk's 

 Pool. Up to this point from Belleek, its 

 course has been through a ravine formed by 

 overhanging rocks covered with wood. These 

 rise in many places perpendicularly to the 



