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To angle Cumberland and Westmorland well, 

 and to make the tour of their rivers and lakes 

 as pleasant and improving as possible, the 

 sportsman should travel on foot, just as the 

 crow flies, and not he solely guided in his 

 movements by the principal towns in the vicinity 

 of fishing waters. In following out this 

 pedestrian plan, he will come in contact with 

 the best localities for sport, besides visiting, 

 under the most favourable circumstances, the 

 most interesting places in point of scenery. If 

 not over-fastidious in his habits of living, which 

 no true angler should be, he will find all his 

 reasonable and necessary wants richly supplied 

 at most of the ordinary country villages, and 

 inns on the way- side. There is a simplicity and 

 apparent roughness in the ordinary mode of 

 living in both counties, that may not be readily 

 relished by an inhabitant of the southern 

 counties of England ; but a tourist will find the 

 people remarkably hospitable, kind, and obliging, 

 and ready at all times and seasons to aid him in 

 any way that lies in their power. 



Indeed, the state of society and the manners 

 of the people, are themselves full of interest to a 

 thoughtful mind. We see in those wild and 

 secluded districts, formed, as it were, by the 

 mighty hand of chaos himself, an uncorrupted, 



