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salmon-trout, the great lake trout, the common trout, the charr (S. 

 alpinus, L.), only in the fell lakes, the smelt,, the grayling, the gwyn- 

 niad (C. oxyrrtiinchus, L.), the vendace, the herring (strommmg), 

 the burbot, the flounder, the sturgeon, the eel, and the lamprey. 



Thus we see that thirty-two normal species of fish are met with in 

 the waters of Norhotten and Lapmark, of which three (the pike-perch, 

 the ruffe, and the smelt) belong exclusively to fresh water. Twenty- 

 four are fresh-water species, but are met with also in the brackish 

 waters on the coasts. Two species (the salmon and the ell) are met 

 with both in fresh and salt water. Of the true salt-water fish only two 

 species are met with in the very north of the Baltic namely, the 

 herring and the viviparous blennyj while on the Stockholm coasts 

 fourteen species of salt-water fish are normal, by which we may judge 

 that the Bothnia has more the character of a large Arctic lake than 

 a true sea. It may be very probable that the food of the 

 salmon in these Bothnian rivers is different to that in the Norwe- 

 gian streams. Yet it seems singular that they will not in both 

 rivers rise to the salmon fly, which certainly in general is a resem- 

 blance of no insect that ever crawled or flew j and even if the fly 

 failed, it does seem strange that these Bothnian salmon, which 

 certainly are precisely the same species as those taken in the rivers 

 running into the Cattegat and the North Sea, should not be tempted 

 to take a small herring-bleak or vendace (the most killing of all 

 baits for large lake trout), if neatly spun. 



Now, from a perusal of the above, it will be seen that as far as 

 regards the true sea-salmon, the Swedish waters, except just three 

 or four rivers running into the Cattegat in the south of Sweden 

 (and which I believe are all taken up by some of the rich " timber 

 lords" in Gothenburg) offer not the slightest attraction to the 

 salmon fisher ; and as we are told that all the Norwegian waters 

 are rented (but of this more by-and-by), the whole of the Scan- 

 dinavian continent, whose waters the salmon fisher at home is 

 foolishly led to believe offer the finest and freest sport in Europe, 

 and, as it were, a complete dead letter, save to a very few ; for 

 there seems to be an opinion that all along the Eastern coast there 



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