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letters, and made suggestions, whereby I have availed myself of the 

 experience of other anglers who have visited the Salmon regions, and 

 am now ready to open my budget and lay the knowledge thus 

 acquired before the reader in an abridged form. I have never seen 

 my reviewer face to face, but it is needless to say, I do not think so 

 unkindly of him now ; for after all, he may not be " a severe, sour- 

 complexioned man," but some outspoken, kind-hearted Englishman, 

 or genial, mirth-loving, Salmon-fishing Irishman ; or a Scot — " a child 

 of the mist," — as dangerous in his fling for a Salmon as he is spicy 

 in his fling at a Yankee author. 



The reader will observe that in Chapter XIV. I have replaced the 

 List of Salmon Rivers as it appeared in the first edition, with a new 

 one, which is compiled from the latest information that can be 

 obtained from official and other sources. 



Without formal mention of addenda furnished by other friends 

 than those already alluded to, or here drawing the attention of the 

 reader to their contributions, I refer him to the following pages, 

 wherein he will find descriptions of waters noted for Salmon, Sea 

 Trout, and Brook Trout, as well as information on Rockfishing, Fish 

 Breeding, and other matter which cannot fail to interest him. 



