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Page 48, after line 15. 



PHYS. So much knowledge and practice is re- 

 quired to become a proficient, that I am afraid it is too 

 late in life for me to begin to learn a new art. 



HAL. Do not despair. There was alas ! that I 

 must say there was an illustrious philosopher, who 

 was nearly of the age of fifty before he made angling 

 a pursuit, yet he became a distinguished fly-fisher, and 

 the amusement occupied many of his leisure hours 

 during the last twelve years of his life. He, indeed, 

 applied his pre-eminent acuteness, his science, and his 

 philosophy, to aid the resources and exalt the pleasures 

 of this amusement. I remember to have seen Dr. 

 Wollaston, a few days after he had become a fly-fisher, 

 carrying at his button-hole a piece of caoutchouc, or 

 Indian rubber, when, by passing his silkworm link 

 through a fissure in the middle, he rendered it straight 

 and fit for immediate use. Many other anglers will 

 remember other ingenious devices of my admirable and 

 ever to be lamented friend. 



(On the par, page 69.) 



The author, in supposing that the par may be pro- 

 duced from a cross between the river trout and the 



