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PREFACE. 



IN the following little volume I have endea- 

 voured to lay before the public a plain and 

 practical work on Sea Fishing, a book which 

 has been long wanted, there never having been 

 one published which treated solely on this 

 subject. In it I have given a brief account 

 of the British fisheries, and a descriptive 

 statement of each of the most important kinds 

 of fish found on our coast, with a view to 

 induce those who migrate every year from the 

 interior of the country to the coast, to make 

 Sea Fishing in all its branches a distinct 

 pursuit quite as much as salmon fishing, 

 grouse shooting, or any other of the many 



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