Salmon Fishing. 



The skilled herbalist will tell you, that there 

 is scarcely an ailment incidental to mortals, 

 without its appropriate antidote, in the wide 

 circle of his favourites in the vegetable world, 

 could it but be discovered. Be that as it 

 may, when languor and lassitude seize us, 

 apart from any indiscretion of eating and 

 drinking, I, for one at least, am at no loss 

 to account for the evil. Too sedentary a 

 life, indispensable at times under circum- 

 stances we cannot control, with too much 

 employment for the brain, has been invariably 

 followed, in my own case, by these fits, under 

 which, so long as they continue, so long, say 

 fellow-sufferers, must we not bid adieu to tran- 

 quillity and peace ? 



To be able to battle successfully against the 

 foe in question, without the aid of the Physician, 

 and in a way too that is as innocent in itself, as 

 pleasant to the patient, is the principal reason 

 for my having for many years past exchanged 

 the trout for the salmon-rod. Far be it from 



