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safely) close to the shore at the very mouth of the 

 " Rauma" river. It is this river Rauma out of which 

 I want my reader to catch a salmon, or see me catch 

 one. It flows down the middle of the valley, not as 



HEAD OF A SALMON. 



Scotch rivers, London or Dublin porter-hued, but 

 clear, bright, and translucent as crystal. 



Here, amid such scenes, with this glorious stream 

 rushing tumultuously in a. sort of semicircle round 

 me, thus giving me some half-a-dozen salmon 

 pools, each within about 200 yards from the house, 



