DEESIDE FOTTINGS. 231 
salmon-pools of the Dee. The railway station of 
Carrog, on the continuation of the new line between 
Llangollen and Corwen, gives easy access to this part 
of the river. For four miles below this station the 
Dee may be fished from the bank with occasional 
wading ; but to fish any part of the Glendwyr Pre- 
serve in the best way, the use of a coracle is indis- 
pensable. The employment of such a craft, however, 
and the regulations of the Preserve, impose rather 
serious restrictions on the freedom and pursuits of the 
angler. To many the restrictions arising from both 
causes amount to a positive prohibition of fishing the 
best casts of the stream. In the first place, none but 
subscribers of three guineas per annum to the Pre- 
serve are allowed to fish it with a coracle atall. In 
the next place, there being not more than three 
coracle-owners on the river, to whom a person unac- 
customed to this primitive style of navigation could 
prudently confide his safety, one of these men and 
his frail bark must he engaged by the intending 
atigler several days in advance, as the demand for 
their services is very considerable. Nor can this be 
wondered at, when we recollect that the fishing- 
ground of which we are writing is within a few hours’ 
run of all parts of the wealthy and populous district 
of Lancashire. After poisoning every stream and 
river within their reach, the lords of the shuttle and 
-vat issue forth at stated times, like clouds of locusts, 
