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he weighed 201b.), I had the mortification of discover- 

 ing that I was only playing the rocks above referred to. 

 I rescued my line and my minnows intact, and the only 

 trace of the conflict was the presence of tufts of stone 

 moss on my traces and line. This ended my fishing this 

 day, much to Junka's disgust, who cannot understand 

 why I should have preferred sacrificing two lohi to 

 endangering our lives by shooting the Bodisco Falls. 



It would be interesting to know when and where such 

 remarkable trout-fishing has been excelled or equalled. 



We left Helsingfors, the chief city of Finland, in 

 July, on our last fishing tour, intending to embrace 

 the south-west corner of the Grand Duchy. We 

 found that an article which we had written on angling 

 in Finland had been translated from the English and 

 re-published in some of the Finnish newspapers, hav- 

 ing given, apparently, a good deal of satisfaction to 

 the Finlanders, though we had endeavoured to be as 

 impartial as possible. We were entertained, in conse- 

 quence, before leaving Helsingfors, at a banquet in the 

 pretty Brunns Park, by Mr. Sundman, whose admir- 

 able " Fishes of Finland," painted and lithographed 

 by himself, can be seen in London among other 

 places at the Fly- Fishers' Club. He is now engaged 

 upon the birds and eggs of Finland, with the latter of 

 which two subjects he finds more difficulty than with 

 the fishes to obtain the delicate variations of tint. Some 

 of the fish from which he made his drawings he caught 

 himself, but generally kept several persons employed 



