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or there, with this sole exception, that — from being comparatively less 

 harassed — the fish here are much bolder, and can be taken with much 

 heavier tackle, and with much less skill, than in any British waters. 

 This distinction is, however, growing smaller every day, especially on 

 Long Island ; where, from the same causes, the fish are becoming shier 

 and more difficult every year, and where, inconsequence, finer tackle and 

 greater skill are constantly coming into requisition. Perhaps, even at 

 this moment, there is a broader difference in this respect between the 

 trout of Long Island and those of the interior of Pennsylvania, where I 

 have taken very large fish in very great numbers with ridiculously coarse 

 tackle, than there is between the fish of the United States, and of the 

 British islands. 



And here I will bring this over-long paper to a close. No one can be 

 more fully aware of its deficiencies than I am myself ; the only apology 

 I can offer is, that it has been thrown off in haste, at moments snatched 

 from severer labors ; and the only hope in which I do offer it, is that it 

 may contain some hint which may prove not wholly unworthy of better 

 brothers of the angle than myself, and that it may be regarded as a 

 tribute of my affection to what has been well termed the gentle art. 



FRANK FORESTER. 

 The Cedars, April 15, 1S47. 



