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fish, three of them large salmon, in a short 

 morning's fishing : but now, except in spring 

 fishing, when the fish are little worth taking, 

 there is no certainty of sport in these rivers ; 

 and one, two, or three fish (which last is of 

 rare occurrence) are all even an experienced 

 angler can hope to take in a day's skilful and 

 constant angling. 



POIET. You have fished in most of the 

 salmon rivers of the north of Europe, give 

 us some idea of the kind of sport they afford. 



HAL. I have fished in some, but perhaps 

 not in the best; for this it is necessary to go 

 into barbarous countries Lapland, or the ex- 

 treme north of Norway ; and I have generally 

 loved too much the comforts of life to make 

 any greater sacrifices than such as are made 

 in our present expedition. I have heard the 

 river at Drontheim boasted of as an excellent 

 salmon river, and I know two worthy anglers 

 who have tried it ; but I do not think they 

 took more fish in a day than I have sometimes 

 taken in Scotland and Ireland. All the Nor- 

 wegian rivers that I tried (arid they were in 

 the south of Norway) contained salmon. I 



