PREFACE. IX 



copies. The insufficiency partly arose from a 

 strong determination to spare no pains upon 

 the colouring of the flies and palmers ; but 

 he begs leave to assure his future patrons, 

 that, although practice has now enabled him 

 to maintain an ample stock of paintings, 

 it has not impaired that resolve in the 

 smallest degree. Indeed a new incentive 

 to exertion arises from the recent appearance 

 of other works on angling, which, valuable 

 as they may be in many respects, are not, in 

 his partial opinion, at all calculated to 

 satisfy the chief wants and wishes of the 

 accomplished flyfisher ; coloured flies and 

 palmers being wholly omitted in them. 



This edition results from a careful revi- 

 sion of the former, and comprehends several 

 improvements, amongst which may be reck- 

 oned greater exactness in the delineation of 

 certain hooks, and the addition of a fron- 

 tispiece. 



The two little foot notes at pp. 14 and 

 16, are mere indices to some good remarks 

 and experiments relative to the iris colours 

 of, and to the sense of taste in, fish, &c. 



