SMELT. 



THE treasures of the streams and the delight of the 

 fly-fisher, feed on numbers of natural flies of different 

 kinds, which for better distinction, may be divided into 

 the following classes : each class contains many distinct 

 species or families that differ from each other in their sizes 

 and colors, but are alike in their shape and construction : 

 which classes them naturally together not to be mista- 

 ken. The classification of shape with the descriptions 

 of sizes and color, may serve as guides to the different 

 species of each class, with a view that they may be 

 distinguished and known whenever they meet the eye 

 of the flyfisher. 



