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deepest places, and the weather being generally 

 intensely cold, the water, for the most part, 

 frozen over, the angler in general lies by for 

 better days. Keen sportsmen, however, will be 

 on the watch at all times, and grayling, now 

 reckoned excellent, are sometimes taken in the 

 middle of a bright day, with a grub, or even 

 with a small fly, two descriptions of which, 

 Cotton says, may be taken, or imitated, the red- 

 brown and bright-dun. 



MIGRATION OF BIRDS. 



The Stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and the 

 Crane, aiid the Turtle, and the Swallow, observe the time of their 

 coming. Jeremiah viii. 7. 



No living creatures which enliven our land- 

 scape by their presence, excite a stronger sym- 

 pathy in the lovers of nature, than migratory 

 birds. The full charm of change and variety 

 is theirs. They make themselves felt by their 

 occasional absence; and beside this, they in- 

 terest the imagination by that peculiar instinct 

 which is to them chart and compass, directing 

 their flight over continents and oceans to that 

 one small spot in the great world where Nature 

 has prepared for their reception ; which is pilot 

 and captain, warning them away, calling them 

 back, and conducting them in safety on their 

 passage; that degree of mystery, which yet 

 hangs over their motions, notwithstanding the 



