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their ideas and expanding their intellects, by inducing 

 them to obtain, through the medium of a noble and 

 healthy recreation, a closer and more accurate acquaint- 

 ance with foreign manners and habits, than was permitted 

 to a former generation, or may be extended to that which 

 is to follow. Who knows whether an intercourse of this 

 kind, begun in youth, and continued on through ad- 

 vancing life, may not influence to a considerable extent, 

 the opinions of the young men who are to form the 

 future statesmen and legislators of Europe, and beget in 

 them those kindly, rational, and Christian feelings of 

 mutual benevolence and good- will, which may assist in 

 preserving to an indefinite period the benefits of that 

 peace which the nations now enjoy the continuance of 

 which must unquestionably prove of incalculable benefit 

 to all. 



We make these observations with a view to direct the 

 attention of our young sportsmen to a part of the continent 

 which lies within a day's journey of their own shores, 

 abounding in all the requisitions for an intellectual angler, 

 cheap, secure, beautiful; a part over which thousands 

 of British youth dash away every year, bestowing upon it a 

 mere transient passing glance, to spend their time, health, 

 and money, in the enervating climes of the south; a 

 part of which they literally know nothing, save the 

 names and localities of two or three of the principal 

 towns, with perhaps their most notorious cafes and other 

 dissipated and scarce reputable haunts; a part also, which, 

 abounding in valuable public libraries where every 

 facility is liberally afforded to the stranger, will enable 

 him to combine rational recreation and intellectual enjoy- 

 ment, to an extent not to be exceeded in any country 

 under the sun. 



