NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



confront the art, because fish won't meet them 

 half-way ashore, and leap into their laps before 

 they come near the water-side ; where you may 

 see them stand like so many star- gazers, gazing 

 on the fish, and the surface of the streams ; whose 

 aspect, if possible, would terrify a grampus, that 

 seldom or never satisfies their appetite, till their 

 avaricious desires have victualed the pannier. 



Theoph. These mudlers shall never merit the 

 title of anglers, nor their arguments a better re- 

 putation than affronts ; mercenary slaves, that 

 murder all they meet with, and hunt like otters 

 to accommodate the paunch. 



Am. Thus our discourse of the river Dean 

 has diverted us to the fields on the north of Re- 

 ven, which indeed was a considerable part of my 

 design ; because I might not only be said to 

 convince you, but use you as an argument to 

 convince others, that the trouts in these solitary 

 streams, are for largeness, beauty, size, and pro- 

 portion, nothing inferior to any in Scotland ; 

 and such have I hal'd out of these purling pits, 

 with nothing save only a natural fly. 



Theoph. But the day declining, what becomes 

 of us now ? 



Am. Why now we must relinquish these roll- 

 ing streams, and those pleasant flourishing fields 

 of Reven that direct to Ingleston, and the anti- 

 quities of Castleton, formerly inhabited by the 



