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and change in ever-varying shapes. There is no 

 spray, and one can stand close at hand and realise 

 that the struggle between the two opposing current? 

 is carried on with a display of violence never to be 

 estimated, from the contemplation of which one can 

 hardly tear oneself. The last of the three attractions 

 near Willmanstrand is the wonderful piece of trout 

 fishing (presuming one has a ticket for the same, to 

 be secured at St. Petersburg only by private influ- 

 ence), rented from the peasants by some English 

 residents in the capital, and styled the Haraka Club. 

 The part of the river referred to comprises half the 

 pool where the Yuoksa leaves the lake and two pools 

 below, with the intervening rapids. The remaining 



half of the lake pool is the property of Gen. A off, 



who has built a large house and a " fishing box" on 

 the shore ; not far removed from it stands the Haraka 

 Club, which enjoys some advantages of situation. 

 The club, however, of which the General is a member, 

 have the right of fishing over his half of the pool, 

 which is some three or four hundred yards in length. 

 The club was founded about 1875. In 1876 no- 

 thing remarkable occurred in the way of sport, though 

 Mr. J. Mitchell* in sixteen days caught 104 trout, 

 the following being the greatest weights of single fish : 

 91b., 4ilb., 121b., 51b., 18ilb., and 171b. In 1877, 

 Mr. J. Murphy, t in forty-eight hours, landed nine 

 trout, weighing in all 139flb., the largest being 



* English Consul-General at St. Petersburg, and brother of the 

 English Consul-General at Christiania. 



t Dentist to His Maj esty and the Imperial family. 



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