had so true an eye for nature, so simple a taste 

 for her most innocent pleasures, and withal, so 

 sound a judgment, both concerning men and things, 

 had made this northern tour instead of Franck ; 

 and had detailed in the beautiful simplicity of his 

 Arcadian language, his observations on the scene- 

 ry and manners of Scotland. Yet we must do our 

 author the justice to state, that he is as much su- 

 perior to the excellent patriarch Isaac Walton, in 

 the mystery of fly-fishing, as inferior to him in 

 taste, feeling, and common sense. Franck's con- 

 tests with salmon are painted to the life, and his 

 directions to the angler are generally given with 

 great judgment. Walton's practice was entirely 

 confined to bait-fishing, and even Cotton, his dis- 

 ciple and follower, though accustomed to fish trout 

 in the Dove, with artificial fly, would have been 

 puzzled by a fish (for so the salmon is called, par 

 excellence, in most parts of Scotland) of twenty 

 pounds weight ; both being alike strangers to that 

 noble branch of the art, which exceeds all other 

 uses of the angling-rod, as much as fox-hunting 

 excels hare-hunting. 



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