It  is  little  likely  he  would  meet  with  greater  obstacles  than
a  few  sovereigns  would  remove ;  and  if  not  elsewhere,  he
would  be  sure  to  find  comfortable  quarters  at  the  Parsonage
of  Utsjoki,  situated  on  one  of  its  tributaries.
Beyond  the  Tana  again,  is  the  Patsjoki,  another  fine  river,
that  has  its  source  in  the  great  lake  Enare,  in  Russian
Lapland;  and  still  farther  to  the  eastward  is  a  smaller  river,
called  the  Peise,  both  of  which  disgorge  themselves  into  the
Icy  Sea.
These  rivers — so  I  am  told  by  M.  Malm,  who  resided  for
some  time  in  this  part  of  Lapland — abound  with  salmon ;  and
being,  I  believe,  untried,  are  well  deserving  the  notice  of
the  adventurous  sportsman.  But  as,  independently  of  the
distance,  they  are  within  the  Russian  territories  (no  great
recommendation),  few  perhaps  will  think  it  worth  while  to
take  so  long  a  journey.
Trout  are  also  plentiful  in  almost  all  the  Scandinavian
rivers,  from  Scania  to  Lapland ;  but  less  so  probably  in  the
larger  rivers  than  in  their  tributaries,  or  in  smaller  streams.
246  TROUT   AND    GRAYLING   FISHING.
A  man,  indeed,  cannot  well  go  wrong  in  the  peninsula,  for
let  him  fish  where  he  will,  he  is  pretty  sure  to  meet  with
sport.
On  the  small  river  at  Qvistrum,  recently  spoken  of,  for
instance,  two  friends  and  myself  once  killed,  in  the  course  of
a  few  hours,  upwards  of  two  hundred  trout.  They  were
small,  it  is  true,  but  must  have  wdghed  together,  never-
theless, between  twenty  and  thirty  pounds.
