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ringly with like truth and justice to both 

 parties. Happily for me I have found 

 them, and I can liberally and conscien- 

 tiously do so. 



The modest work which I have just 

 completed, in conjunction with a friend, 

 relates, as its title tells, to angling on the 

 several streams of Derbyshire and Staf- 

 fordshire, and it refers more particularly 

 to fly-fishing on the Dove, which in 

 several parts is the natural boundary that 

 divides these counties. It has already 

 proved an invaluable recommendation to 

 this work, to have received permission 

 to dedicate it to two of the most respec- 

 table and influential gentlemen that pos- 

 sess beautiful mansions and wide domains 

 in the vicinity on each side of the before- 

 mentioned, enchanting, and far-famed 

 river. The many Noblemen and Gentle- 

 men chiefly resident in the midland 



