DuDglison.] "Y^ [October. 



ballads, music, papers on American fishing, and the most complete 

 catalogue of books on angling, &c., ever printed." 



For such an undertaking no one could have been better qualified 

 and prepared. Fond of the sport to enthusiasm, perfectly acquainted 

 with his authors, and possessed of an admirable piscatorial library, 

 diligently accumulated at considerable expense, he brought to the 

 subject an amount of familiar knovyledge and opportunities for re- 

 search possessed by few, if by any, in this country. The references, 

 with rare exceptions, were verified by his own examination, whilst 

 for the literary annotations he held himself alone responsible. Many 

 of these, especially of a philological character, were the subjects of 

 occasional playful but delightful and profitable correspondence be- 

 tween the writer of this notice and himself; and the whole work 

 affords abundant evidence of rare learning and ample practical know- 

 ledge. 



The annual return of the season of angling was ever looked forward 

 to by him with joyous anticipations as a periodical relief from his 

 constant and absorbing ecclesiastical studies and duties; and in the 

 company of two or three kindred spirits and tried friends of himself 

 and the rod, he hastened, at the proper season, to the rivers or lakes 

 of this country or of Canada to enjoy his favorite pastime ; and long 

 will he be held in grateful remembrance by many of the rude children 

 of the forest, who gathered together on the Sabbath to listen to his 

 fervent and eloquent exhortations. 



In an oration entitled, "A Plea for Study," delivered before the 

 literary societies of Yale College, in 1845, he urges that, among out- 

 door recreations, none has been a greater favorite with studious men 

 of Great Britain, because none is more suited to quiet habits, fond- 

 ness for retirement, and love of nature, than angling, — not in the 

 sea, but in brooks or rivers, where the genus Sahno abounds; and he 

 cites from the catalogue of men illustrious in every department of 

 knowledge, who have refreshed themselves for fiirther useful toil 

 by this '' gentle art," — as its admirers delight to call it, — the name 

 of Izaak Walton, ''the pious biographer of pious men;" Dryden, 

 Thomson, Wordsworth, among the poets ; Paley, Wollaston, and 

 Nowell, among the theologians; Henry Mackenzie, author of the 

 "Man of Feeling;" Professor Wilson, the poet, scholar, and es- 

 sayist ; Sir Humphry Davy, the chemist, and author of " Salmo- 

 nia;" Emerson, the geometrician; Rennie, the zoologist; and Chan- 

 try, the sculptor, to prove that the taste is not inconsistent with 

 religion, genius, industry, or usefulness to mankind. 



