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who, as a man, a writer, and an Angler, has left a 

 name and character, that his fellow-citizens of Lon- 

 don may well quote with pride and exultation. And 

 I am highly pleased, and much gratified, to see that the 

 Work on Fishing, of the venerable author, has been, 

 of late years, republished, enriched, illustrated, and 

 embellished in a manner worthy the subject, and 

 equally creditable to the taste of the publisher, and 

 the talent of the artist, displayed in the recent edi- 

 tions of Walton's " Complete Angler/' sent forth to 

 the public, by several spirited booksellers of the me- 

 tropolis. 



Remarks on Trout. 

 Trout delight most in sharp shallow streams, some- 

 times lying under a large stone or shelving clump, at 

 other times swimming, and, seemingly, striving against 

 the stream 5 they are also found in such cold water, 

 that no other fish can live therein : they will also live 

 in clean gravelly and sandy-bottomed spring ponds, 

 with a stream running through, but will not thrive 

 so fast, or breed so well, as in rivers. They spawn 

 in October in most streams, after which they retire 

 into deep still holes, and under shelving banks, and 

 there remain during the Winter season, in the course 

 of which they become very poor, and lose the beau- 

 tiful spots on their bodies, instead of which, they are 

 much infested with a worm, or water-louse, and the 

 head of Trout at this season seems much too large, 

 and their whole appearance is lean, lank, and far from 

 that of a beautiful Fish : but when the days lengthen, 



