PREFACE. ' IX 



and render the art of angling more 

 difficult and prolix. 



In the works of various authors 

 on angling, much useful information 

 may be gained, but I fear, they have 

 given to the world, more than was 

 confirmed by their own experience, not 

 content with confining their instruc- 

 tions on angling, to fish natives of 

 their own country, we have remarks 

 on every kind of fish, from the di- 

 minutive minnow to the enormous 

 whale, and the attention of the aston- 

 ished reader is, in a very few pages, 

 hurried from the milder climate of 

 Britain, to the frozen banks of New- 

 foundland. 



The excellence of an angler con- 

 sists in combining strength and fine- 

 ness of tackle, proportioned to the 





