To tht Reader. 



and other fifli, which I may com- 

 mend, becaufe they concern not 

 my felf. 



And I am alfo to tel the Reader, 

 that in that which is the more ufe- 

 full part of th is difcourfe ; that is to 

 fay, the obfervations of the nature 

 and breeding, zndjea/onr, and catch- 

 ingoffifo, I am not fb fimple as not 

 to think but that he may find ex- 

 ceptions in fome of thefe ; and 

 therefore I muft intreat him to 

 know, or rather note, that feverall 

 Countreys , and feveral Rivers al- 

 ter the time and manner of fifties 

 B reeding ; and therefore if he bring 

 not candor to the reading of this 

 Difcourfe, he fhall both injure me, 

 and poffibly himfelf too by too ma- 

 ny Criticifms. 



Now for the Art of catching fifh; 

 that is to fay, how to make a man 

 that was none , an Angler by a 

 book : he that undertakes it, fhall 

 undertake a harder task then Hales % 



that 



