FISHER. The same may "be said of some of the 

 "best trout streams in Yorkshire and Westmoreland. 

 The Eure, the Kibble, the Lime, the Lowther, the 

 Esk, and the Eamont, have not afforded average 

 sport this season, as I can testify, both from my 

 own experience and that of others. Some of them 

 have been completely dragged with nets for miles ; and 

 I have seen the waters of k more, than one of them 

 of a chalky colour for several days, and fish lying 

 dead by their sides, from the more destructive prac- 

 tice of liming. Should these practices be continued, 

 fly-fishers will have no option but to emigrate, and 

 leave the fair but troutless streams of England, for 

 the rivers and lochs of Cunnemara, or for the virgin 

 waters of the middle and northern States of America, 

 where never yet trout were deluded by the gay 

 deceivers of O'Shaughnessey, Chevalier, or Widow 

 Phun. Ungrateful country ! thou wilt mourn the loss 

 of thy kindest children too late ; when thou hearest of 

 them extending civilization, and introducing a know- 

 ledge of the gentle art among the wild men of 

 Galway, or the red men that dwell by Lake Huron, 

 when no longer the trout leaps in thy streams, and 

 when no more the angler's reel is heard sounding on 

 their banks. The gigantic trout of Lake Huron, 

 iSalmo Amethystinus,) weighing one hundred and 

 forty pounds, has never yet been captured by a 

 native angler, red man, or Yankee; and if ever he 



