FRANK FORESTER'S 



FISH AND FISHING. 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



TO DEAL with a subject so wide as the Fish and Fishing 

 of an extent of country greater than the whole of Europe, 

 stretching almost from the Arctic circle to the Tropics, 

 from the waters of the Atlantic to those of the Pacific 

 Ocean, may seem, and indeed is, in some respects, a bold 

 and presumptuous undertaking. It were so altogether, did 

 I pretend to enter into the natural history of all, or even 

 of one-hundredth part, of the fish peculiar to this continent 

 and its adjacent seas. 



Such, however, is by no means my aim or intention. I 

 write for the sportsman, and it is therefore with the 

 Sporting Fish only that I propose to deal ; as, in a recent 

 work on the Field Sports of the same regions, it was with 



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