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the Society, was erected by the Manchester Anglers’ Associa- 
tion, in 1884, in the romantic dale above Settle, through 
which the upper waters of the Ribble flow, and along 
which the Settle and Carlisle extension of the Midland 
Railway has been carried. The waters of the Kibble, with 
its tributaries, from its source at Kibble-head beneath the 
wild slopes of Cam Fell and Whernside down to Helwith 
Bridge — a course of about ten miles, flanked by Ingleborough, 
Penyghent, Moughton, and Attermire — are preserved by the 
Association. The river is inhabited by a peculiarly robust 
breed of trout, whose wariness has apparently been developed 
to a high degree by the almost uniform and crystal clearness 
of the river, which flows over a rocky and boulder-strewn 
bed, with here and there pools of great depth and stillness. 
During the construction of the railway, however, when 
large bodies of men were encamped for years in the dale, 
the river was almost depopulated by unrestrained netting 
and fishing ; and the comparative solitude of the dale has 
also made it peculiarly liable to the destructive operations 
of poachers. The river is now carefully watched by the 
Association, and it is with a view to replenishing the waters 
that the fish-house has been erected. A considerable natural 
tarn, or small lake, at New Houses, in a depression on the 
flanks of Penyghent — which is believed to derive its water- 
supply from springs fed from Ingleborough on the opposite 
side of the valley, by subterranean channels running beneath 
the bed of the Kibble — is also preserved, and has been 
stocked with young trout obtained from Loch Leven. 
Though it may be frankly confessed that the primary 
object of the ichthyological operations of the Association 
is sport, I hope that those operations will not be less 
interesting to the members of the Society. The true fly- 
fisher is always something of a naturalist, and to anglers we 
owe some of the most charming and instructive books on 
