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CHAPTER IX. 
NOTES ON TWO MOKE SALMON-RIVERS. 
I. The Forde River, Sondfjord. 
I have already described experiences on rivers which 
may be regarded as representing the two extremes of 
Norway salmon-fishing, namely—(l) a small fly-casting 
stream, as Etne, and (2) a large harling water, as the 
lower Sum a. In the present chapter I propose briefly 
to notice two other rivers of intermediate sizes and 
types. 
The Forde drains a large area of very high-lying 
snowfjelds extending towards Justedal, though not fed 
by the great glaciers of that name. As a salmon- 
river, its course is very short—barely five miles from 
the fjord to Brulands-foss, a sheer waterfall that is 
always impassable to fish. The river, in this respect, 
resembles Etne; but there the resemblance ceases, 
since Forde is altogether bigger, and at first sight 
looked as if it would “ stretch us out.” After a day or 
two, however, we found we commanded the whole 
river, though the wading in parts is deep, and in a big 
water difficult, owing to the strength of the stream and 
the big rounded boulders, slippery as ice, that are 
strewn along its bed. 
