PREFACE. 



THE great partiality I ever entertained for 

 the diversion of Angling, has caused me to pass 

 many a leisure hour in that agreeable pursuit, 

 and to make many observations on the habits of 



Fishes in general. 



These observations have been extremely useh 

 to me in my search for sport, and have often en- 

 abled me to carry home a dish of Fish, while 

 others, more acquainted with the Waters, could 

 scarcely get a nibble ; or, at the utmost, had 

 taken only some small fry, not worth the trouble 

 of unhooking. 



1 do not pretend to have gone over the wliol 

 kingdom ; nor am 1 able to give the character 

 and the course of every Stream;" nor can J 

 bo,>st of having caught Fishes, " until I vas 

 fairly weaned out." 1 have, indeed, very fre- 

 quently kxxn " weaned out" by the abstinence 

 of those 1-ishes 1 wished should faligne me by 

 their weioht ; and many a day have I had a long 

 walk, under a very sultry atmosphere ami the 

 burthen of my apparatus, as the reward of my 



assiduity. 



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