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been encouraged to take up the other. This 

 I have done the more readily, as I have been 

 fortunate enough to bring to my aid the talents 

 of artists, who are amongst the most eminent 

 in their various departments that this country 

 can boast of. I must not, however, impute the 

 landscape part to them : this it was unfortu- 

 nately necessary that some one should under- 

 take who was acquainted with the scenery, 

 and I must hold myself in a great measure 

 responsible for such portion of the plates. 



It will be seen that in the letter-press I 

 have attempted little more than to give a 

 correct and faithful account of the manner and 

 spirit in which the sport of salmon fishing is 

 carried on in various ways where the scene is 

 laid, and to bring before the sportsman the 

 characters of such people as he is likely to fall 

 in with in his excursions. 



Among those whom I have taken this liberty 

 with, as the type of his class, will be found the 

 late Tom Purdie, Sir Walter Scott's faithful 

 riofht-hand man, well-known to the readers 

 of Mr. Lockhart's delightful Biography, and 

 the genuine parent of the stories here attri- 

 buted to him. 



Since the following pages have been printed, 



