*l6 OBSERVATIONS 



sooty, and the Hack blue dun, with many 

 others which it might be thought invidious to 

 particularize. I do not mean to condemn 

 or depreciate these authors, whose united 

 labours in this particular branch of the 

 amusement, may be consulted with conside- 

 rable advantage ; but not having sufficient 

 leisure to accomplish the undertaking, I shall 

 only suggest the advantages resulting from 

 it; I relinquish the agreeable task with lefs 

 regret, as there are not any fish in the Trent 

 but what may be taken by the mode of 

 angling I have recommended, and which I 

 have followed with succefs; I will be 

 ingenuous enough to confefs, that the cir- 

 cumstances which have prevented my un- 

 dertaking it, did not occur, until a consider- 

 able part of these observations were printed 

 off. This will appear to have been my 

 original design from the remark in the 

 dedication, that angling connected as it is 

 with natural history, is a study of greater 

 importance than is generally believed, and 

 worthy the attention of sensible (and I will 



