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that beautiful, but scantily stocked, river. 

 Small salmon and sea trout, or sewens, as 

 they are called in the country, may be 

 caught, after the autumnal floods, I believe, 

 in most of the considerable Welsh, Devon- 

 shire, and Cornish streams ; but I have 

 fished in many of them without success. 

 The Conway I may except: this river, in 

 the end of October, will sometimes, after a 

 great flood, furnish a good day's sport, and 

 if the net fishers could be set aside, several 

 day's sport. I have known two salmon, one 

 above 201bs., taken here in a day; and I 

 have taken myself fine sea trout, or seiuens, 

 which, in an autumnal flood in Wales, are 

 found in most of the streams near the sea. 



POIET. I have heard a Northumberland 

 man boast of the rivers of that county, as 

 affording good salmon fishing. 



HAL. I have no doubt that salmon are 

 sometimes caught in the Tyne, the Coquet, 

 and the Till ; but, in the present state of 

 these rivers, this is a rare occurrence. I 

 was once, for a week, on a good run of the 

 North Tyne ; I fished sometimes, but I 



