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enough to be made out of the experience of all that 

 love and practise this recreation, to which I shall en- 

 courage them. For Angling may be said to be so 

 like the Mathematics, that it can never be fully 

 learned ; at least not so fully, but that there will still 

 be more new experiments left for the trial of other 

 men that succeed us. ... 



" I shall stay him [the Reader] no longer than to 

 wish him a rainy evening to read this following Dis- 

 course ; and that, if he be an honest Angler, the East- 

 wind may never blow when he goes a-Fishing." 



To guard against any possible errors in the de- 

 scriptions of different fishes given in this book, and 

 to be justified in advancing the claim that they are 

 absolutely reliable and correct, the manuscript was 

 submitted to Dr. David Starr Jordan, President of 

 Leland Stanford Junior University, whose rank as a 

 scientist, educator, and publicist requires no definition. 

 For the courtesy of this thoroughly equipped ichthy- 

 ologist in reading the manuscript, passing upon its 

 scientific accuracy, and writing his graceful Prefatory 

 Note, I desire to make my grateful acknowledgments. 



