THE 



TRUE ENJOYMENT 



OF 



ANGLING. 



NE TENTES, AUT PKRFICE. 



England now stands pre-eminent as tlie school 

 of Anglers ; its varied climate makes acute our 

 senses, its many streams afford fresh pleasures, 

 and the honour of its votaries gives impulse 

 to improvements that are never ending, and 

 our constant thought. It is often said that 

 little new can be placed before the sportsman 

 who has well digested the far famed Izaak Wal- 

 ton. It is true that nothing can surpass his 

 beauty of sentiment, his richness of ideas, or 

 his simplicity, and perfection of life; but, to 

 assert, that our rods are not finer tapered, 

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