96 THE JOLLY ANGLER. 



the Dung Wharf, near Water Lane, Trig Stairs, and Essex 

 Stairs; on the Surrey side, Falcon Stairs, the Barge 

 Houses, Cuper's, vulgo Cupid's Stairs, the Wind Mill, and 

 Lambeth!" 



Again, he says, '' You will very often meet with Trout 

 and Carp at Brentford!" (query, did he mean on a 

 market -day \] These extracts are from his revised and 

 corrected edition, published in 1814; and yet in that 

 work you may profit much under the head of Fly Fish- 

 ing; as you may, also, by reading " Bainbridge" and 

 "Williamson;" or, for Salmon Fishing*, the Driffield 

 Angler, the author of which evidently describes what he 

 has practised. Salter does the same in Bottom Fishim ; 

 but, as works of general amusement, they all fall far short 

 of Walton and Cotton's Angler, that has become a uni- 

 versal favourite, and will remain so while the fields retiin 

 their wonted verdure ; but divested of its poetical, rustic 

 beauty, it would fall far short of many modern work in 

 point of information on the subject of angling. 



The first half-sheet of this work having been printed 

 two years ago, accounts for the allusion, at page 10, to 

 Mrs. Scorer (since dead) ; as also for the date to the Intro- 

 duction. Business of another nature has prevented me 

 from completing my design earlier. 



* If /here attempted to teach what I do not understand (Sal- 

 mon Fishing, to wit), I should in all probability fall into the same 

 e*ror Mr. Best does on Thames Fishing. Every kind of angling 

 described in this work, I have a practical knowledge of, unless 

 otherwise expressed ; consequently, I can only apologize for inac- 

 curacies in language, never having hitherto written any thing for 

 the press. 



FINIS. 



Printed by J. Read, St. Mary-Axe. 



