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anglers who have tried it; but I do not think they took more fish in a day than I have sometimes taken in Scotland and Ireland. All the Norwegian rivers, that I tried, (and they were all in the south of Norway,) contained salmon. I fished in the Glommen, one of the largest rivers in Europe; in the Mandals, which appeared to me the best fitted for taking salmon; the Avendal and the Torrisdale;-but, though I saw salmon rise in all these rivers, I never took any fish larger than a sea trout; of these I always took many-and even in the fiords, or small inland salt-water bays; but I think never any one more than a pound. It is true, I was in Norway in the beginning of July, and in exceedingly bright weather, and when there was no night; for even at twelve o'clock the sky was so bright, that I read the smallest print in the columns of a newspaper. I was in Sweden later-in August: I fished in the magnificent Gotha, below that grand fall Trolhetta, which to see is worth a voyage from England; but I never raised there any fish worth taking: yet a

gentleman from Gothenburg told me he had formerly taken large trout there. I took, in this noble stream, a little trout about as long as my hand; and the only fish I got to eat at Trolhetta was bream. The Falkenstein, a darker water, very like a second-rate Scotch river say the Don-abounds in salmon; and there I had a very good day's fishing. I took six fish, which gave me great sport; they were grilses, under 6lbs.; but I lost a salmon, which I think was above 10lbs. This river I conceive must be, generally, excellent; it is not covered with saw-mills, like the Norwegian rivers in general; its colour is good, and it is not so clear as most of the rivers of the south of Norway.

PHYS. Do you think the saw-mills hurt the fishing?

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HAL. I do not doubt it. The immense quantity of sawdust which floats in the water, and which forms almost hills along the banks, must be poisonous to the fish, by sometimes choaking their gills and interfering with their respiration. I have never fished for salmon in Germany. The Elbe and the

Weser, when I have seen them, were too foul for fly fishing; and in the Rhine, in Switzerland, and its tributary streams, I have never seen a salmon rise. I once hooked a fish, under the fall at Schaffausen, which in my youthful ardour I thought was a salmon, but it turned out to be an immense chub-a villanous and provoking substitute. And our islands, as far as I know, may claim the superiority over all other lands for this species of amusement. In England it is, however, a little difficult to get a day's salmon fishing. The best river I know of is the Derwent, that flows from the beautiful Lake of Keswick; and I caught once, in October, a very large salmon there, and raised another; but it is only late in the autumn that there is any chance of sport there, though I have heard the spring salmon fishing boasted of. At Whitwell, in the Hadder, I have heard of salmon and sea trout being taken-but I have never fished in that river. The late Lord Bolinbroke caught many salmon at Christchurch; but a fish a week is as much as can be expected in

that beautiful, but scantily stocked, river. Small salmon and sea trout, or sewens, as they are called in the country, may be caught, after the autumnal floods, I believe, in most of the considerable Welsh, Devonshire, and Cornish streams; but I have fished in many of them without success. The Conway I may except: this river, in the end of October, will sometimes, after a great flood, furnish a good day's sport,—and if the net fishers could-be set aside, several day's sport. I have known two salmon, one above 20lbs., taken here in a day; and I have taken myself fine sea trout, or sewens, -which, in an autumnal flood in Wales, are found in most of the streams near the sea.

POIET.-I have heard a Northumberland man boast of the rivers of that county, as affording good salmon fishing.

HAL. I have no doubt that salmon are sometimes caught in the Tyne, the Coquet, and the Till; but, in the present state of these rivers, this is a rare occurrence. I was once, for a week, on a good run of the North Tyne; I fished sometimes, but I

never saw a salmon rise; and the only place in this river where, from my own knowledge, I can assert salmon have been caught with the artificial fly, was at Mounsey, very high up the river. There, in 1820, two grilses were caught, in the end of August. I have recorded this as a sort of historical occurrence; and I dare say most of the counties of England in which there are salmon rivers, would, upon a minute inquiry, furnish such instances, if they contained salmon fishers. Yorkshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall, with the sea on both sides, ought to furnish a greater number.

PHYS. Give us some little notice of the Scotch and Irish rivers.

HAL. I fear I shall tire you by attempting any details on this subject, for they are so many, that I ought to take a map in my hands; but I will say a few words on those in which I have had good sport. First, the Tweed-of this, as you will understand from what I mentioned before, I fear I must now say "fuit." Yet still, for spring salmon fishing, it must be a good river. The last