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place in England where a man of any mind at all can 

 be more highly gratified, with a fishing-rod in his hand, 

 than in a tour embracing the entire waters in these 

 several counties; and the best way of really enjoying 

 the sports of the angle, after getting to the locality by 

 railway, is to walk from river to river and from lake to 

 lake. A great part of the country is wUd — astonishingly 

 wild and lonely — but full of grandeur and picturesque 

 beauty ; and there are now plenty of places where 

 refreshments can be readily obtained, and every civility 

 met with. 



Supposing the angler leaves London by the London 

 and North- Western, at Euston Square, for Lancashire, 

 he will be there in a few hours, and the next day may 

 enter upon his amusement. Part of the rivers in this 

 county are rendered unfit for general piscatory move- 

 ments, by reason of the manufactures established upon 

 their banks. The Ijune, which springs from the high 

 and mountainous parts of Westmoreland, and enters 

 the sea below Lancaster, is a good stream, both for 

 sahnon and trout. The best districts on the river are 

 those which lie between Kirkby-Lonsdale and Hornby, 

 near which the small stream of the Wenning enters it. 

 There are often very fine baskets of trout taken in this 

 direction. We have seen both large trout and salmon 

 captured within a very short distance of the town of 

 Lancaster. There are many favourite flies for this 

 river; and if you inquire of any of the regular fre- 

 quenters of the river, each will have his pet bait, 

 and strenuously insist upon its superiority to every 

 other. 



When the rod-fisher has got a footing at Lancaster, 

 he has the railway right through to Carlisle, to the 

 borders of Scotland, and which goes by, or rather cuts 

 at right angles, many of the rod-fishing streams in 

 Westmoreland and Cumberland. This is a great con- 

 venience, because the tourist can choose any direction 

 he likes, without loss of time or waste of money. On 

 the left, on the route to Carlisle, all tlie Lake District 

 waters lie ; but there is good fishing by ascending the 



