PREFACE. 



These pages formed the occupation of the 

 Author during some months of severe and 

 dangerous illness, when he was wholly in- 

 capable of attending to more useful studies, 

 or of following more serious pursuits. They 

 constituted his amusement in many hours, 

 which otherwise would have been unoccupied 

 and tedious ; and they are published in the 

 hope, that they may possess an interest for 

 those persons who derive pleasure from the 

 simplest and most attainable kind of rural 

 sports, and who practise the art, or patronize 

 the objects of contemplation, of the Philoso- 

 phical Angler. 



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