Vlll PREFACE. 



thing should induce him to do, after the very 

 flattering manner in which his former editions 

 have been received by the Reviewers and the 

 Public. 



He now offers to their notice the fifth 

 edition of this work, which has, of late, been 

 in many parts materially altered and en- 

 larged. The improvements here added have 

 been the result of still further experience ; 

 and, therefore, may be considered, in some 

 degree, as finishing lessons to those young 

 sportsmen, who have before done him the 

 honour to attend to his earlier instructions. 



The original matter, however, on which no 

 improvement happened to present itself, will, 

 of course, remain as before, for the benefit of 

 younger pupils in shooting. But every thing, 

 which was written previously to the year 

 1816 that could be improved, up to the pre- 

 sent year, has been introduced on a different, 

 and, he trusts, a more perfect system. 



All the new directions, which this work 

 con tains, .have been first experimentally tried, 



