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station after seventeen hours’ carioling. The accom¬ 
modation was primitive, but we had a reason for our 
choice. Tables and chairs, curtains, carpet, and the 
like count for little when under your window surges a 
broad flood that, you are told, abounds in big trout. 
The banks were bounded by huge, bare boulders, in 
places twenty feet sheer, and the river appeared one in 
which one might look for salmon. But, by reason of 
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a high foss below, no sea-fish could ascend here. The 
circumstance, however, was the more favourable to its 
trout-holding capabilities. 
Yet from that surging flood not a fish could we 
beguile. Part of the water, no doubt, was too tumul¬ 
tuous ; but there were stiller reaches, and here and 
there, where some frequent monolith stemmed the 
torrent, were formed turn-holes and foam-flecked 
