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and every other destructive invention that can 

 he contrived for the wholesale slaughter of the 

 splendid Salmon. Oh ! look to it, you that 

 have the power. 



From Limerick the angler may proceed to 

 Athlone and Galway, but I should advise him 

 to proceed to the south first, and fish the 

 Blackwater and the lakes of Killarney; Mr. 

 Jas. Butler has prohibited the fishing at Water- 

 ville this spring, in consequence, as he says, 

 "of the numbers visiting, coupled with acts of 

 poaching." I should say the lake is free, as it 

 always was and ever has been, knowing that 

 Mr. Butler is most polite to gentlemen. 



THE LAKES OF KILLAKNEY. 



From Mallow, on the Blackwater, the angler 

 proceeds to Killarney. It would be as well to 

 go to Lismore, farther down from Mallow, 

 where there is good Salmon fishing to be had ; 

 there is a Mr. Foley here (who rents the "weirs" 

 of the Duke of Devonshire), he is most polite 

 to strangers, and allows them to fish in the 

 weirs, which are of some extent ; and most of §| 



