intercession, a holiday, to go a fishing. My lessons 

 in fly-fishing were taken under our drawing-master, 

 as great a proficient in the art as ever I met with, 

 and in his company I have fished in the Wear, in 

 the neighbourhood of Stanhope and Wolsingham; 

 in the Greta; in the Swale, near Catterick; and 

 at Bichmond; as well as in the Tees, from Piers- 

 bridge to the Wheel or Weel, above Middleton. 

 Trouts were not plentiful in the Wear then, twenty- 

 eight years ago; and I understand that they have 

 since "become more scarce, nay almost extinct in 

 the upper part of the stream, in consequence of the 

 water from the' lead mines. The Tees used to afford 

 tolerably good sport from Cotherstone upwards, 

 though it used to be sometimes netted by the mi- 

 ners about Middleton. The " Weel," about ten miles 

 above Middleton, is a deep pool above two miles 

 long, and containing excellent trout. The country 

 is the most wild and desolate that I ever beheld, 

 and I have been at the head of Borrowdale, and 

 crossed Dartmoor, but the Cauldron Snout, where 

 the stream dashes from the Weel over a succession of 

 falls, and the High Force, five miles above Middleton, 

 where the stream leaps, at one bound, from a ledge 

 of rocks sixty f&et high, are well deserving of the 

 attention of the tourist who happens to be within 

 twenty miles of the place. Once, during a vacation, 

 when I did not return home, I spent a week with 

 our drawing-master, who was residing with his friends 

 at Bichmond. We went out together one day to an 



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