58 NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



vers in the promontories of Great Britain, if dex- 

 trously examined, and industriously managed 

 with patience, and other requisites, sutable and 

 agreeable to the methods of aft. 



We may also in our progress, as we travel the 

 country, take a survey of their towns, forts, and 

 fortresses. The like we may do of their cities, 

 castles, and citadels ; with their rivers, rivulets, 

 and solitary loughs, which will furnish us with 

 fish enough, provided we can furnish ourselves 

 with baits. But to furnish every angler with a 

 new bait, was the studious invention of Isaac 

 Walton, author (as you may read) of the Com- 

 pleat Angler, who industriously has taken care 

 to provide a good cook, (supposing his wife had 

 a finger in the py,) which will necessarily be 

 wanting in our northern expedition, where the 

 fry are numerous, (nay numberless almost,) in 

 some of those rapid and trembling streams ; from 

 whence the artificial fly (if that exercise be well 

 understood) will contribute as much as any thing 

 to court them ashore, and sweeten our recrea- 

 tion. But I speak more peculiarly to ingenious 

 artists, not to those flegmetick fellows indigent 

 of art ; such only I allot an accidental fate. 



Theoph. Methinks I grow impatient to at- 

 tempt these silver streams with our harmless ar- 

 tillery. Here needs no auxiliary force to guard 

 our approaches, when only to trample these de- 



