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dergraduats) : It's true, it is so ; but what 

 then ? can't they omit the thoughts of ele- 

 ments, to mingle sometimes their contem- 

 plations with things more sublime ? Can't 

 they relinquish their exercise, to converse 

 with heavenly objects ? This I advise to, 

 and my book will instruct them. 



Now I have given you a plat-form for 

 contemplation, which opens the windows 

 of the mind to inspectulate (if possible) in- 

 visible objects ; but not to darken your sight 

 by gazing too much at the sun ; for the more 

 amiable and illustrious any thing is, the 

 more astonishing is that thing, and ought 

 therefore to be the more admired, conse- 

 quently desired, before the methods of in- 

 dustry, or the lineal progress of art. But 

 in as much as angling is a great part of our 

 business, let me admonish the more inge- 

 nious artist to be mindful of experience, lest 

 peradventure he slide into the slippery tract 

 of an author, so unman himself of practical 

 demonstration. Against which hypothesis 

 I exhort the angler, whilst capable to trace 



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