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though a steam launch runs twice daily from Jyvas- 

 kyla. An expedition in search of fresh angling 

 grounds, or rather waters, which we were strongly 

 advised to take by Herr Hintze, who edits a small 

 sporting monthly journal called Sporten at Helsingfors, 

 consists in posting from Jyvaskyla to Sumiainen, forty 

 miles north; thence by steamer across to Yiitasaari 

 (four hours) and onwards west across a lake to the 

 neighbourhood of Huopana. Instead of this we re- 

 turned half-way down the Paijanne Lake to Kalkis, 

 where some native sportsmen of Helsingfors have a 

 " Fishing and Shooting Club " (the latter part, how- 

 ever, of the title being ornamental) as if in imitation of 

 the preserved water on the Vuoksa Eiver belonging to 

 the club of English and Scotch anglers of St. Peters- 

 burg, and where there exist the most noteworthy 

 facilities for catching the great lake trout (Salmoferox) 

 with the wonderful record of past sport previously 

 described. 



At Kalkis the Kymmene Eiver flows from the 

 Paijanne into some small lakes to the eastward and 

 forms some rapids half a mile in length. 



We were provided with an invitation from the 

 Kalkis Club through its president, who possesses a 

 Sport Magazin, or shop for sporting appliances, in 

 Helsingfors, looked after by an Englishman. 



Two members of the club also arrived at the same 

 time, and we commenced fishing the same evening. 

 The peasants are paid altogether only 12 a year for 

 the exclusive right of trout fishing on the above- 



