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a discovery in Natural History, at the same 

 time. Sir Joseph Banks, who was always a 

 great amateur of angling, had often this kind 

 of pleasure. And to Captain Franklin and 

 Dr. Richardson, in their expedition to the 

 Arctic Ocean, when they were almost starv- 

 ing, what a delightful circumstance it must 

 have been, to have taken with a fly those 

 large grayling of a new species, equally 

 beautiful in their appearance, and good for 

 the table ! 



HAL. When a boy, I have felt an interest 

 in sea fishing, for this reason that there was 

 a variety of fish ; but the want of skill in the 

 amusement sinking a bait with a lead and 

 pulling up a fish by main force, soon made 

 me tired of it ; and I have rarely fished in 

 the sea since I have been a fly fisher, and 

 then only with a reel and fine tackle from 

 the rocks, which is at least as interesting an 

 amusement as that of the Cockney fishermen 

 who fish for roach and dace in the Thames, 

 which I have tried twice in my life, but shall 

 never try again. 



PHYS. You are severe on Cockney fish- 



