angle than is comprised in the list of members of the 

 Association. The volume is, therefore, placed before the 

 public in the same spirit in which its component parts 

 were submitted to the original hearers. 



Though good listeners are desirable members of a 

 social gathering, yet it is proper that each man should 

 be prepared to contribute somewhat to the general 

 entertainment. But there be some men who are too 

 strongly impressed with a sense of this duty, and who 

 do not "leave other men their turns to speak," but 

 "would reign and take up all the time." Such loquacious 

 persons are eminently amiable, but occasionally tire- 

 some. This not infrequent drawback to spoken discourse, 

 is, however, absent when the matter is presented in the 

 form of a printed book ; for, by simply closing the volume, 

 the reader can stop the supply when his present 

 wants are satisfied. 



At least one practically useful purpose may be 

 served by this book. It is a souvenir of pleasures 

 enjoyed on the banks of pure streams and in the midst 

 of rural scenery ; and emanating, as it does, from 

 the chief city of a district where aquatic life is 

 being utterly destroyed by river pollution, and where 

 the varied beauties of nature are being too wantonly 



