CHAPTER XVI. 



SCHAFFHAUSEN. FISHING IN THE RHINE FALLS. 



HAVING arrived at Schaffhausen, and having taken 

 up my abode at the " Hotel Weber," which com- 

 manded a view of the Falls of the Rhine, and 

 from which it was not much more than a stone's 

 throw, on making inquiries about the fishing and 

 whether there were any salmon there, I received for 

 answer, that there were salmon to be caught there 

 in the winter, but that till the winter came there 

 were none or very few, and that they did not as a 

 rule get up further than a place called Lauffenburg, 

 w r here they caught them in nets and traps and various 

 other engines which were set by the sides of the 

 river, and into which they leapt on their passage up 

 the falls there, and that very few ever arrived as 

 far as Schaffhausen, where the falls were insur- 

 mountable. 



