160 THE ENTOMOLOGY OF THE ERNE. 



fishing weather, yet there were few days in 

 which fish had not been caught by one or 

 other of them. 



There is one great advantage in a lake 

 river, and that is a thing that ought to be 

 borne in mind by all fishermen who are 

 choosing their summer's fishing-ground. It 

 is much less affected than any other descrip- 

 tion of stream by the changes of the weather. 

 A whole night's steady rain will change the 

 colour of almost any water ; but it has little 

 effect on the Erne. There are absolutely 

 no tributaries to the stream, and for the 

 impurities of those which fall into the lake, 

 the lake itself acts as an enormous cess-pool ; 

 all discolouring matter sinks quietly to the 

 bottom, while the surface, which in all cases 

 must be the clearest part, is skimmed off by 

 the river. 



A week's incessant rain had, however, at 

 last tinged the whole mass, and the very 

 surface had assumed the brown yellow hue 

 of the bog-peat, thickened by the mud which 

 had been washed from the sides of the hills. 

 The water came pouring over Rose Isle Fall 

 " like the mane of a chestnut steed :" and the 

 Captain, the most energetic and persevering 



