170 AN ANGLER'S SEASON 



flood in August. That is a frail basis 

 on which to assume that the season 

 ended with May. Why, we are in July, 

 and our basket is packed to the brim ! 



In England, where the water-level, 

 never high, is gradually becoming very 

 low, nobody would think of going up- 

 hill in search of trout. Instinctively one 

 realises that there cannot be a lake among 

 the hills of Hampshire, for example, or 

 on the Sussex downs. Surrey is equally 

 ill-off. Its best bit of uplands is without 

 even a considerable pool. This peculiarity 

 of the southern part of Great Britain is 

 due to the isolation of the eminences. 

 If Surrey had a cluster of Leith Hills, 

 instead of having only the solitary mount, 

 it would have a lake somewhere near the 

 clouds when the barometer and the sky 

 are low. Great tracts of Scotland are 

 bounteously enriched by water stored 

 far above the ordinary haunts of men ; 

 yet this is known only to a few. Let 



