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this evil, but the remissness of the authorities who 

 should see that the regulations are carried out is so 

 palpable that the law is comparatively a dead letter. 



There is a nice little stream about seventeen miles 

 further out in the Fjord, by Talvig Praestegaard, where 

 there are one or two good places. The fish do not run 

 large there. Also two rivers at the bottom of Qvcen- 

 anger Fjord may be tried ; they often hold good fish. 

 Char will generally take a fly greedily in all these rivers. 



EEISEN ELV, to the south of Alten, is a fine river. 

 It lies about fifty miles east of Tromsoe, in a valley 

 running over that distance into the interior. It has 

 a good body of water, with several fosses of no great 

 height. Salmon run up a long way. Owing to the 

 character of the stream, they will not take a fly, I am 

 informed, though they are exceedingly abundant. 



An acquaintance of mine travelled by land, in 1859, 

 from Bosekop to the Eeisen Elv, or rather, by land to 

 Qvoenanger Fjord, about fifty-five English miles, and 

 thence by boat by the islands of Spilderen and Kaago 

 to the Eeisen. " I reached Eeisen," he informed me, 

 " at 6 P. M., and got excellent quarters at Landhandler 

 Lund's ; at ten, walked about two English miles up 

 the river to investigate it (in feet, the main reason of 

 my expedition). The water was very thick, and they 

 told me it was often so in summer. The first fishing 

 place is about fourteen English miles up the river, and 



