APPENDIX. 



A TOURIST-ANGLER^S GUIDE. 



Tms Guide, being a partial epitome of the "Year of Liberty," 

 has been added to the work more for the benefit of the wandering 

 sportsman than for perusal by the general reader, its design being to 

 show the former at a glance the principal lakes and rivers that 

 lie in his route. Before proceeding further, however, it may be 

 advisable to say a few words regarding the arrangement which has 

 been adopted. 



Designed rather for strangers than residents, the island has been 

 divided by arbitrary lines into strips or districts, generally extending 

 from one sea-board to another, each division being in direct con- 

 nection with some great route, leading to Ireland from England, 

 Wales, or Scotland. For example : whilst the line from Holyhead 

 to Kingstown places the angling-tourist at the edge of the great 

 central lake district, that from Bristol to Cork would bring him at 

 once into the south-west division of the county. 



The reader must not suppose that all the waters in the several 

 districts are here mentioned. Lakes and rivers, ordinarily of inferior 

 sporting quality, are so numerous, that if each were to appear in 

 review before us, a volume, not a chapter, would be required for 

 their illustration. But though these are now passed by in silence, 

 the angler must not imagine they are beneath his notice; on the 

 contrary numbers of the smaller streams on the coast, though 

 unsuitable for stations, occasionally afford admirable sport after 

 rain. The tourist should therefore constantly have an eye to 

 business, and everywhere institute diligent inquiries as to the con- 

 dition necessary to bring each up to concert pitch. By this means 



