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Til SAILMON. 



As this beautiful and delicious fish spends 

 a considerable portion of its life in the sea, 

 it can be hardly with propriety considered a 

 fresh ivater fish ; yet, as it is to be found in 

 most of our rivers which have direct com- 

 munication with the Ocean, and as it is pro- 

 ductive of such very superior diversion to 

 the Angler, it has been generally usual in 

 treatises of this description to give it prece- 

 dence as the KING of FISHES. 



Inasmuch as the use of the fly surpasses 

 every other mode of Angling, in the same 

 ratio is the Angling for Salmon superior to 

 common Trout fishing. The following ex- 

 tract, as being in unison with the ideas of 

 the Compiler, he has ventured to copy from 

 the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Under the 



