ADVERTISEMENT, 



ALTHOUGH I have given this work the 

 title of the Driffield Angler, the rules it con- 

 tains will equally apply to other northern 

 rivers ; and I apprehend, with little varia- 

 tion, to every part of Great- Britain ; but as 

 my own practice has been confined to the 

 North, and particularly to Driffield, where I 

 have resided thirty years, I imagined it 

 could not be rendered less acceptable to the 

 reader for being compiled near the banks of 

 one of the finest trout streams in the king- 

 dom : I do not deny that I have sometimes 

 quoted from other writers in the descriptive 

 parts of this work; but the instructions, and 

 particularly those for making artificial flies, 

 are my own ; and will, I hope and trust, be 

 found of considerable use. 



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