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with rocks emerging from fringes of birch, bird cherry, 

 and rowan, and turned into a little glen on the right, 

 an ideal place for a picnic. We camped and had our 

 lunch where a little semicircle of level grass formed a 

 natural bower, the rocks at the back being so sym- 

 metrically arranged as to look like human handi- 

 work. Here we enjoyed an excellent meal, after 

 which three of the party started on an expedition to 

 Haller Vand, the fourth lake out of which one of the 

 two great cascades visible dashes down from the 

 watershed above, near which the great reservoir 

 which is to supply the proposed power-station below 

 Hammeren is to be constructed. 



The path ended by the side of the nearest lake, 

 and the pedestrians were conveyed to the end of Lille 

 Vand in a Berthon boat, which returned for us after 

 depositing its freight. I fished off the rocks until 

 the boat came back, landing two small fish, and 

 afterwards cast from the boat for about an hour 

 without getting a single rise. Ole, who was rowing 

 me, declared that the lake was so low that " all the 

 fish had gone up," and it certainly looked like it. I 

 returned to the landing-place, and scrambled down to 

 the bank of the river which flows for some quarter of 

 a mile through the short peninsula which divides 

 Lille Vand from Stor Vand. I never saw a more 

 beautiful pool than the first to which I came, an ideal 

 place for salmon or sea-trout, if it had been possible 

 for migratory fish to reach it. Deep, clear, and rocky, 

 with great submerged boulders for shelter, its appear- 

 ance delighted my salmon fisherman's eye. It was 

 full of small trout, and I landed fourteen in a very 

 short time, but nothing of any size, although I was 



