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do," has opportunities for becoming a meteo- 

 rologist -which no one beside but a sailor pos- 

 sesses ; and one has often longed for a scientific 

 gamekeeper or huntsman, who, by discovering a 

 law for the mysterious and seemingly capricious 

 phenomena of " scent," might perhaps throw 

 light on a hundred dark passages of hygrome- 

 try. The fisherman, too, — what an inexhaustible 

 treasury of wonders lies at his feet, in the sub- 

 aqueous world of the commonest mountain burn ! 

 All the laws which mould a world are there busy, 

 if he but knew it, fattening his trout for him, and 

 making them rise to the fly, by strange electric 

 influences, at one hour rather than at another. 

 Many a good geognostic lesson too, both as to 

 the nature of a country's rocks, and as to the 

 laws by which strata are deposited, may an ob- 

 serving man learn as he wades up the bed of a 

 trout-stream ; not to mention the strange forms 

 and habits of the tribes of water-insects. More- 

 over no good fisherman but knows to his sorrow, 

 that there are plenty of minutes, ay, hours, in 

 each day's fishing, in which he would be right 

 glad of any employment better than trying to 



" Call spirits from the vasty deep," 

 who will not 



