X PREFACE. 



study of the intelligent angler. It embraces by far 

 the fullest and truest history of the Salmo salar 

 as yet extant. It is the work, substantially, of 

 Mr. Andrew Young of Invershin ; in my opinion, 

 the greatest living authority on the subject. The 

 circumstances under which I have obtained from 

 him the facts adduced are stated elsewhere ; but I 

 am responsible for the manner in which they are 

 narrated, for a few trifling addenda to them, and 

 for some arguments and deductions that naturally 

 flowed from them. 



Lest it may be supposed that I have formed 

 an exclusively high opinion of the acquirements 

 and abilities of my friendly coadjutor, I have per- 

 mission to make known the estimation in which 

 he is held by one of the foremost noblemen in 

 the kingdom. In reply to a letter soliciting at 

 the hands of his Grace the Duke of Sutherland 

 the honour of inscribing this little work to him, 

 his Grace, with characteristic kindness, wrote to 

 me as follows : — 



