To Robert Lowe, Esq. Oxton. 



SIR, 



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Have ventured to dedicate 

 the following observations on An- 

 gling to you, an amusement which 

 in an age of fashionable dissipation 

 like this, has few advocates, I am not 

 vain enough to believe they contain 

 any thing which has escaped your 

 attention, or that the few hours lei- 

 sure which I have devoted to the 

 subject, will be considered by you 

 of greater importance, than to in- 

 struct the young angler in the pur- 

 suit of a diversion, rational, manly, 

 and entertaining, and which on mi- 

 nute investigation, will be found 

 worthy the attention of sensible men, 

 as it comprehends so considerable a 

 portion of Natural History,. 

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