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the fair sportsmen (particularly to the angler), 

 should the public right be carried to its ut- 

 most extent, or rather should that right be 

 abused. An equal injury may be sustained 

 by the parties now calling themselves propri- 

 etors of these private fisheries, but for which 

 they will only have to blame themselves, by 

 their endeavours to monopolize a privilege 

 they appear to me not entitled to, and beyond 

 what the public may feel inclined to allow, 

 but which by a little prudence and less arbi- 

 trary measures they might have retained. 



The writer has here to acknowledge the 

 assistance he has received from the author 

 of the Pamphlet so frequently alluded to. He 

 has not only adopted nearly the course he 

 has so judiciously pursued in the arrangement 

 of his work, but has been greatly assisted 

 by it, and by the reference to the authorities 

 he has quoted. Whenever he has had occa- 

 sion to refer to other authorities, and to quote 

 from them, to use the words of the author 

 of the Pamphlet, he trusts, " those quotations 

 are so plain, that every man may apply them, 

 and on this state of facts it is now left to the 

 consideration and determination of every im- 

 partial person, whether he has succeeded in 



