PREFACE. 



THE greater part of this little volume is de- 

 rived from letters written, on the spur of the 

 moment, to friends in the South, during 

 several autumns passed by the author at 

 Gordon Castle. He ventures to hope that 

 some of its pages may possess an interest 

 for the field naturalist as well as for the 

 salmon-fisher. 



