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Phvs. — So much knowledge and practice is re- 

 quired to become a proficient, that I am afraid it is too 

 late in life for me to begin to learn a new art. 



Hal. — Do not despair. There was — alas! that I 

 must say there was — an illustrious philosopher, who 

 was nearly of the age of fifty before he made angling 

 a pursuit, yet he became a distinguished fly-fisher, and 

 the amusement occupied many of his leisure hours 

 during the last twelve years of his life. He, indeed, 

 applied his pre-eminent acuteness, his science, and his 

 philosophy, to aid the resources and exalt the pleasures 

 of this amusement. I remember to have seen Dr. 

 WoUaston, a few days after he had become a fly-fisher, 

 carrying at his button-hole a piece of caoutchouc, or 

 Indian rubber, when, by passing his silkworm link 

 through a fissure in the middle, he rendered it straight 

 and fit for immediate use. Many other anglers will 

 remember other ingenious devices of my admirable and 

 ever to be lamented friend. 



{On the pm-y j)oge 69.) 



The author, in supposing that the par may be pro- 

 duced from a cross between the river trout and the 



