6 PREFACE. 



To lovers of stream-side scenery, it has been 

 attempted to render this volume acceptable, without 

 the introduction of local details and methodical sur- 

 veys. The design of the writer to embody certain 

 ANGLING REMINISCENCES would be very inefficiently 

 accomplished, were he to occupy the area of this 

 small work with matters such as these. Accordingly, 

 he has refrained from doing so as much as possible, 

 without, it is to be hoped, impairing any of the 

 interest which a friendly reader might otherwise have 

 discovered in the following chapters. 



PUBLISHERS' NOTE TO THE PRESENT 

 EDITION. 



[This work, published in 1837, and since then 

 become extremely scarce, is not to be confounded 

 with either of the other two angling works by the 

 same author. The present one is an entirely separate 

 and distinct work. One of the other productions was 

 published before this, and the other after it.] 



