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PREFACE 



rpHB following pages, embodying the result 

 -* of long experience as a fisherman and 

 careful observation as a lover of Nature, are 

 intended by the Author to convey, in the 

 simple and familiar form of personal narrative, 

 some knowledge of the natural history and 

 habits of that most interesting fish, the 

 Salmon, and some hints as to the mode of 

 capturing him with the artificial fly. 



The Author is not vain enough to suppose 

 that he can teach the naturalist or practised 

 fisherman anything he did not know before ; 

 but he ventures to hope that, whilst to the 

 tyro some of the facts set, forth, and 

 some of the maxims insisted on, may prove 

 both novel and instructive, the incidents 

 recorded and the localities described may 

 awaken in the breast of both naturalist and 



