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THE EIVEK SHANNON. 



This is the largest and finest Salmon river 

 in Britain. There is not a river in Norway 

 that can be compared to it for fishing, were it 

 properly used. The angler must proceed to 

 its banks before he can say, conscientiously, 

 that he has ever seen a salmon river. In its 

 course it expands into three large and beautiful 

 lakes, Lough Allen, Lough Eee, and Lough 

 Derg. There are numerous islands in the 

 latter one, with ruins of religious edifices, &c. 

 This noble river receives many tributaries, in 

 which there is capital fly fishing, with rapids 

 and falls of water till it reaches Limerick. It 

 runs a hundred and twenty miles to this place, 

 and sixty more to the sea. It is on leaving 

 the lakes that it abounds with many delightful 

 streams — the haunts of large Salmon and fine 

 Trout. Six miles above Limerick, at Castle 

 Connel, there is a splendid place for the fly, 

 and Trout fishing is good. The angler will here 

 behold a scene that will greatly amuse him. 



There are other capital casts for Salmon up 

 to Killaloe, where the Pike and Eels are of an 



