PEE FACE. 



IN the first part of this little volume it will be my 

 endeavour to make the reader acquainted with the 

 resources which Norway offers to the angler and the 

 sportsman. 



To do this the better, I have described each Amt 

 (province) in turn ; and have, moreover, as far as was 

 possible, given the routes to the various rivers. 



Hitherto a certain degree of mystery has hung, as it 

 were, over the salmon rivers of Norway, and erroneous 

 reports have, in consequence, been circulated concerning 

 them. 



These reports have assumed two opposite forms ; the 

 one, that every yard of water is leased, and is in 

 the hands of Englishmen, and that a man " might as 

 soon expect to get a seat in Parliament, as to obtain 

 any salmon-fishing in Norway;" and the other, that 

 he has nothing to do but to set foot in the country, 



