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Let it be distinctly understood that I by no means 

 wish it to be inferred that salmon-fishing can be en- 

 joyed in all of the above-named rivers. But that fair 

 sport is occasionally to be had in some of them, I am 

 quite convinced. And to the sportsman who is pos- 

 sessed of a good constitution, and ' not adverse to loco- 

 motion, the proximity of the above-named rivers to 

 each other may afford him an opportunity of testing 

 the greater part of them. And as all the best fishing 

 in this Amt is hired, he must be content to put up with 

 what he can get, forming a residue, by the way, by no 

 means to be despised. 



We now come to Molde, at the mouth of the 

 Komsdal Fjord, a stopping station for the steamers to 

 the north. A small steamer runs up the fjord to its 

 extreme end at Yeblungsnaes, for the route of which, 

 vide Bennett's ' Handbook.' 



In the neighbourhood of Molde there is some good 

 trout-fishing to be had. The view from this place 

 over the mountains of Eomsdalen is truly magnificent. 

 Before arriving at Yeblungsnaes there are one or two 

 small rivers, which, I am told, occasionally will yield 

 a little sport ; thus at Void, a few miles to the west of 

 the above village. 



" That district of the western coast of Norway which 

 is bounded by Eomsdal on the west and Sundal on the 

 east, affords an unrivalled field to the sportsman, or to 



