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central Norway, where they seem to be confined exclu¬ 
sively to lakes, or lake-like waters. I first met with 
them in the Evanger, where a small spoon captured a 
dozen in an hour’s trolling. These averaged half a pound, 
with one larger, and were lovely objects, herring-shaped, 
their backs dark green, shading off through orange 
and salmon-colour to bright crimson below, the whole 
spangled with pink or white spots. The gill-covers 
showed golden reflections ; the lower fins and half the 
tail bright red, banded black and tipped with white. 
I have seen several char of between 2 and 3 lbs. 
weight (besides some large trout) taken on set lines in 
an alpine lake at 2400 feet, which, at the time (June 
6th), was still three-fourths covered with ice, and 
appeared an impossible place for fish-life. 
Char abound in many of the hill-lakes of the 
Nordenfjeldske, and sea-char in the rivers of Nordland. 
II. A Reminiscence. 
As the month of June wore on, and the northern 
summer approached its zenith, the heat in our narrow 
gorge became well-nigh intolerable. The mosquito, 
moreover, was beginning to make himself a plague, 
both by day and night; but we were reluctant to leave 
our quarters, where an' incipient birch-forest flourished 
on the turf-thatched roof, for a rushing river, almost at 
the door, daily yielded a beautiful basket of trout. We 
had, moreover, discovered some new water within an 
hour’s drive ; so, for some days longer, we continued 
fishing in breathless, blistering heat. The newly-found 
water consisted of a succession of deeps separated by 
