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THE DEE AND DON. 



These rivers run into the sea at Aberdeen, 

 and are excellent for Salmon and Trout fishing 

 — the Dee for Salmon, and the Don more for 

 Trout, which are most delicious for the table ; 

 they cut as pink as Salmon. The white-trout 

 fishing is good here in October, and the flies I 

 have just given for the Tay will kill admirably 

 in these rivers ; and for salmon, will be capital 

 ones, made a size or two larger. When I 

 visited that country a few years back, I walked 

 up the Dee one evening, and at a shallow ford, 

 above the bridge, there were two men " stroke- 

 hauling " the salmon as they run up out of the 

 pool below, and which they called their rented 

 fishery; they rushed into the stream with a 

 sort of net in their hands, and had them out 

 in quick time. As the fish run, the water did 

 not appear to cover their backs. I was told, 

 were it not for this practice, the river would be 



