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of fly-fishing is attempted to be conveyed; and 

 they will be found also in the chapter which 

 treats of the history of the trout, particularly 

 with reference to the remarks on some disputed 

 points in the nature and habits of the migratory 

 SalmonidcB ; in the arrangement of the list of flies ; 

 in the enumeration of the materials required for 

 fly-making; and, in short, in the remaining 

 chapters, which treat of the practical depart- 

 ment of this delightful and thoroughly English 

 recreation. 



The writer trusts that his little book, in its 

 present altered shape, will not be without interest 

 and use to his " brethren of the angle," and that 

 it will be received with an indulgence for which 

 an enthusiastic love of the art, and an earnest 

 desire for the diffusion of its precepts, that others 

 may enjoy its pleasures also, are claims that will 

 not be totally disregarded. 



Axminster, Nov. 1850. 



