too large a fly; on some days we numbered a couple of grilses, and we caught lots of finnocks, and one day we had two beautiful char, the size of a half pound. This is a handsome shaped fish of a deep crimson colour. The boat, man, and horse and cart, cost about 7s. 6d. per day, by which means we were not fatigued going or coming. There is a small island on which we used to do our fish in a conjuror a little round shaped tin stew pan, with lamp heated by strong whisky or spirits of wine,-done in this way, with a little pepper and salt, finnocks especially, and also other fish, never can taste better-fresh air and hunger being their best sauce. All the time we fished here we used nothing but the fly: it is said char do not take it, but we found it otherwise in Moidart and Glenalladale. And, I again beg to observe, that there were no particular flies used but the common trout or loch flies;-all the while, they took sometimes one sometimes the other.

In the interval of all these different periods of time, I have occasionally gone to places near London; for instance, I have been at West Drayton, the sign of the 'Trout,' when old Parr kept it. This was about 1823. The water fished

in there was little worth after Cockneys came down on the Saturday evening, and used to fish on the Sunday, a thing which, I may say, I never did. They took dace, roach, and perch; but, it was small fishing to me. I fished farther down below the mill; but at one time a great many years after, I took only one small trout. I have, when October was a fine month, taken a dozen or two of other fish, dace, etc., but it was more a run for fresh air than any other thing. Hubert de Burgh, Esq., is the Lord of the Manor here; and, to him, I was indebted for leave to fish. It fell off for many years; but I chanced to walk here about a year ago, and I saw the fruits of preserving water; there were then plenty of fine large trout, but I was told few could take them with rod and line; many of these were four and five pounds weight, and I hope again to try my hand on them some of these days shortly.— For the sake of recreation, I have also gone to

Maidenhead,

And fished just behind Lord Orkney's, with little success. I must confess I never saw, all the times I was there, more than two or three trout, say, three-quarters of a pound, taken with the fly. I have taken chub with fly, under the bushes, a little above; and I have seen some of my friends, apparently good fishers, try all day at the Wear, and come off in the evening, without getting an offer: and, the last excursion to the same place, with other four, we never saw a fin. I have also fished from a boat, below the bridge and about Bray, with little better success, although my friend, who accompanied me, took, I think, a brace of jacks about 3 lbs. each, after losing, I should say, in traces and hooks, on the weeds, nearly the worth of twenty shillings; but I never yet fished from a punt in the Thames, with all the well known appendages of ease and comfort which we so often see indulged in at Richmond and Twickenham.

The Uske.

In coaching days I have also gone to the Uske, in Monmouthshire; and when I had persevered for two days at the salmon, I was told, on my return, 'to take mine ease in mine inn,' for the very day previous to my coming, all the pools had been swept out by the nets-this was the beginning of September.

Farningham

ON THE DARENT (KENT).

I went to this a few years ago, with a friend, who insisted to take my double-handed rod. We went, but he never put it up; I, however, persevered, and got four trout, which the people at the inn said was quite a take; and unless, you fish in the preserved waters of Sir Thomas Dyke, Bart., you seldom did more. They were the prettiest trout I have ever seen; so small in the head and so beautifully 'be-dropped wi' crimson hail. You soon get to this place by the rail from London Bridge, then per coach

some four or five miles-distance from town, seventeen miles.

Carhalton-on-the-andle.

Near Croydon is a famous fishing place, but so preserved and clubbed, that you cannot get a line thrown on its streams, unless you are introduced by a member. I have, some years ago, got some good trout; but, I am afraid, it may be said as it has been said of the Fifeshire rivers, 'the dulcia of the angler having vanished before the utilia of the community.' Paper and printing-mills are doing their work here also.

Ghe Mole

(LEATHERHEAD).

It is an age, I may safely say, since I cast a fly on the waters of Mr Hankey of Fitchampark. The country all around this place is beautiful in May and June. I remember, it was the early hay-making, and, although it was a good day, I did little; and the gentlemen