PREFACE 



TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



THE favourable judgement passed upon 

 these humble labours, by the respectable 

 Magazines and Journals, which have con- 

 descended to review them, the promptitude 

 with which indulgent brother anglers have 

 responded to that decision, and the very 

 encouraging terms in which it was pro- 

 nounced, have constituted the natural and 

 pleasing motives for printing this second 

 edition. 



A correction (concerning the weight of 

 Trouts, usually rising to a fly,) with which 

 the learned and tasteful Christopher North 

 seasons his most grateful dish of praise, is 

 adopted on the occasion, with profound re- 

 verence, by one, who, although not ranking 

 amongst the elite of Scottish Anglers, ever 



