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NINTH DAY. 



HALIEUS POIETES ORNITHER 

 PHYSICUS. 



FISHING FOR HUCHO. 



SCENE The Fall of the Traun, Upper Austria. 

 TIME July. 



POIET. THIS is a glorious scene! And the 

 fall of this great and clear river, with its 

 accompaniments of wood, rock, and snow- 

 clad mountain, would alone furnish matter 

 for discussion and conversation for many 

 days. This place is quite the paradise of a 

 poetical angler; the only danger is, that of 

 satiety with regard to sport ; for these great 

 grayling and trout are so little used to the 

 artificial fly, that they take almost any thing 

 moving on the top of the water. You see 

 I have put on a salmon fly, and still the fish 

 rise at it, though they never can have seen 



