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neighbourhood of Lysne Gaard is very good. The 

 latter part of June will be found to be the best time 

 for this river, and the fishing is best near the mouth. 

 Lerdalsoren is an excellent station, and the station- 

 master is very civil and obliging. 



AARDALS ELV, running into a fjord of the same 

 name, a little to the north of Lerdalsoren, is often 

 capable of affording excellent sport ; but the quantity 

 of water in this river is very irregular. It is best 

 after a good deal of rain has fallen. Fish have been 

 taken, I am informed, up to forty pounds in weight. 

 When the water is very low, salmon run up into a lake 

 which is about five miles in length, and from thence 

 find their way up a river running in at the other end for 

 about three miles and a half. In the autumn the salmon- 

 trout-fishing to be had in this river is exceedingly fine. 

 I believe the fishing here to be engaged, but am not 

 certain. I do not think it was in 1860. I do not 

 know whether fishing can be had in the Jostedal river 

 near Lyster in the Gaupne Fjord ; but it is a likely- 

 looking stream, though, of necessity, a late one, owing 

 to its running down from the glaciers. It is about 

 thirty miles north of Lerdalsoren, whence it can be 

 reached by boat-skyts. (For an account of the glaciers 

 vide Murray's ' Handbook,' p. 165.) 



In Sogndals Fjord, to the west of this, is the AAKO 

 ELV, which, though not of great extent, yet has a large 



