I inquired where it was.
"Yonder," said he, pointing to some distance down the river.
"Why is it called the Robber's Leap ?" said I.
"It is called the Robber's Leap, or Llam y Lleidyr," said he, "because a thief pursued by justice once leaped across the river there and escaped.
It was an awful leap, and he well deserved to escape after taking it." I told him that I should go and look at it on some future opportunity, and then asked if there were many fish in the river.

He said there were plenty of salmon and trout, and that owing to the river being tolerably high, a good many had been caught during the last few days.

I asked him who enjoyed the right of fishing in the river.

He said that in these parts the fishing belonged to two or three proprietors, who either preserved the fishing for themselves, as they best could by means of keepers, or let it out to other people; and that many individuals came not only from England, but from France and Germany and even Russia for the purpose of fishing, and that the keepers of the proprietors from whom they purchased permission to fish, went with them, to show them the best places, and to teach them how to fish.

He added that there was a report that the river would shortly be rhydd or free and open to any one.