INTRODUCTION, 



THE very general interest manifested of late on the 

 subject which has suggested the following pages, 

 would seem to render any apology for their publication 

 unnecessary; nor does the Author pretend to claim 

 the merit of originality, where others of such pre- 

 eminence have already enlisted the sympathies of the 

 public on its behalf. 



In attempting to give a summary of the principal 

 difficulties and dangers which attend the propagation 

 and preservation of the Salmon in the Dee, he has 

 been instigated primarily by a desire to awaken a 

 warmer interest in the welfare of that particular river ; 

 and he has been encouraged by a conviction that a 

 statement of facts, taken from any locality, by one to 

 whom opportunity was afforded, could not fail to apply 

 generally ; and that, as the mite of a contributor to a 

 cause of general import, his efforts, however humble, 

 might, he trusts, be accepted in a kindly spirit, and 

 offered without presumption. 



Chester, St. David's Day, 1853. 



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