ADVERTISEMENT. 



IN the following pages the Author, availing 

 himself of his leisure, has endeavoured to give 

 an account of those parts of the Lake District 

 which are most interesting to the angler and 

 tourist. 



The form of dialogue which he has adopted, 

 so tempting and favourable to varied discussion, 

 has often led him on to the consideration of 

 other matters than piscatory, and some of them 

 of higher moment, such as the instincts of 

 animals, the poets' homes, and kindred subjects, 

 for the introduction of which he trusts he may 

 be pardoned so long as Angling deserves to be 

 called " the contemplative man's recreation.'* 



