44 INTELLECTUALITY OP FLY-FISHING. 



cumstance may be too obvious to require pointing 

 out) that the practice of fly-fishing, in addition to 

 numerous other recommendations, which it would 

 be superfluous to enumerate, presents peculiar 

 facilities for studying some of the most interesting 

 productions of nature. The habits of fishes and 

 of the insects on which they prey extensive 

 and important sections of the animal kingdom 

 with " many curious and interesting facts," adds 

 Sir Humphrey Davy, himself an accomplished 

 naturalist and fly-fisher " are really forced upon 

 the angler's observation ;" so that in addition to the 

 enjoyment derived from the practice of angling, 

 the seeds of still more pleasurable and intellectual 

 pursuits cannot fail to be sown, if the soil be of 

 anything like the proper character to receive 

 them. 



