Fly-Fifhing. 



figh for reft, entire reft of mind and body j I can 

 conceive no more charming panacea for your real 

 or imaginary troubles, than a few weeks' rambling, 

 fuch as I would recommend, with a fifhing-rod in 

 your hand, and a fketch-book, if you pleafe, in 

 your pocket. 5 * You know how dark the clouds 

 are that occafionally track our fteps down the 

 path of duty we have to purfue. The fcenes we 

 muft continually witnefs how fickening to the 

 heart that has any feeling for the wants and 

 woes of others ! the volume of human nature that 

 is ever before our eyes, with every conceivable 

 illuftration of its forrows and its fins how pain- 

 fully does it unfold to us every particular of its 

 difmal ftory. 



* " I have made you idlers at home and abroad, but I 

 hope to fome purpofe ; and, I truft, you will confefs the 

 time beftowed upon angling has not been thrown away. 

 The moft important principle perhaps in life is to have a 

 purfuit a ufeful one, if poflible, and at all events an inno- 

 cent one. And the fcenes you have enjoyed the contem- 

 plations to which they have led, and the exercife in which 

 we have indulged, have, I am fure, been very falutary to 

 the body, and, I hope, to the mind. I have always found 

 a peculiar effeft from this kind of life ; it has appeared to 

 bring me back to early times and feelings, and to create 

 again the hopes and happinefs of youthful days." 



SIR H. DAVY. 



