INTEODUCTOEY EEMAEKS. 



The art of angling is one of the most agreeable, 

 and morally improving, in the entire range of 

 rural sports. It is cultivated with more care 

 and assiduity in Great Britain than in any 

 other country; and its inhabitants have fostered, 

 in connection with it, a more ardent love of the 

 beauties of external nature, and a keener relish 

 for the sympathies which they awaken in the 

 human breast, than any other people. They 

 mingle the spiritual and contemplative with 

 the manly and active ; and to saunter by the 

 banks of the river and the brook, is to them 

 redolent of the most refreshing pleasures and 

 charming associations. 



This trait in the manners and pastimes of 

 the inhabitants of the British Isles, has been 

 often the subject of observation and comment 



