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WILD NOEWAY. 
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CHAPTER X. 
TEOUTING FOE TOURISTS. 
I. In Search of Arcadia. 
Noeway is the Elysium of the wandering angler, but 
is not unlikely, in the first instance, to disappoint his 
hopes. The cause will lie in too high-flown anticipation 
rather than in any inherent fault in Scandinavian 
waters. There is an infinite choice available to the 
trout-fisher, and, amidst abundance, the tyro is apt to 
conclude that he must fall into an angler’s paradise 
“right away.” But Utopia must be sought in Norway 
as elsewhere. Sooner or later he will find it, and, in 
retrospect, will agree that there is reward in those 
preliminary explorations. No one who has searched 
out for himself the “arcana” of foreign lands, and 
perchance discovered spots of which the piscatorial 
mind may dream, but seldom realizes, cares to publish 
for all and sundry what has cost so much time and 
trouble to find out. 
A twofold obstacle is encountered at the outset. 
First, the Norsk streams are often too rapid for fly¬ 
fishing ; many, in fact, are little better than rapids and 
cataracts, offering, even to one accustomed to highland 
rivers, hardly a yard of fishable water. Then, when 
