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tive mind that it seems sadly out of place to drown 

 its energies, and better sympathies and aspirations, 

 with continual potations of stupifying drinks. We 

 effectually, by such a habit, cut ourselves oif from 

 all participation in the real and refined pleasures 

 which angling, as an "art, and in such a locality as 

 we are now contemplating, is calculated to afford. 



Another essential requisite to comfortable and 

 successful angling tours in the Highlands, is to pay 

 great attention to the feet. Thick shoes or boots, 

 and warm woollen stockings, should be always used. 

 Nothing facilitates a man's easy transit over a moun- 

 tainous country, and along the rugged banks of 

 streams, better than a sedulous attention to what is 

 here recommended. 



