Xll THEPACE. 



valuable animals in the rod-fisher's part of a 

 river throughout the whole of the lawful season. 

 This I have attempted to do in the following pages, 

 having had more than twenty years' practice in 

 that border river alone, above twelve miles of 

 which I rented at different periods. 



To the Tweed I have confined myself ; and I 

 beg my readers to observe, that my remarks and 

 instructions are meant to apply to that river 

 alone ; and consequently that I am not account- 

 able for what salmon choose to do in other 

 waters, and for the different means that people 

 may employ for catching them there. 



Deer-stalking and salmon-fishing are at the 

 head of field and river sports: having written 

 what has been very generously received upon the 

 first and best of these subjects, I have 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 unfortunately ne- 

 cessary that some one should undertake who was 

 acquainted with the scenery, and I must hold 

 myself in a great measure responsible for such 

 portion of the plates. 



