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they imagine to be the bearings and sail off again. Then 
the ground is picked up once more, and the wily ones 
resume operations in good earnest. Another factor bear- 
ing on the publication of such “marks ” in a work like the 
present is the difficulty of indicating the exact spot to a 
stranger. Thus, I might advise getting the steeple of a 
certain church over a windmill; but churches are many, 
and so for the matter of that, though too often idle now- 
adays, are windmills, especially on the West Sussex coast 
A hill with a quaint name, often hard to pronounce for 
the ear of residents from whom the visitor would learn 
its whereabouts, would not be easy to identify, and there 
are in fact but few objects that may, without further 
explanation, be set down in a book. If there is but one 
pier and but one flagstaff at its extremity, there can of 
course be no risk of confusion if I give that flagstaff as a 
bearing. If there is but one fish-market, the clock-face 
on its entrance will also serve the purpose. So too 
would the opening of the only tunnel visible from the 
sea, or a certain chimney on the coast-guard station. 
It will be seen that the following notes make no pretence 
to furnish a complete guide to the sea-fishing obtainable 
on the English, Scotch and Irish coasts. Those who 
know anything about the matter will, I think, agree with 
me that such an undertaking would require to itself a 
volume twice the size of the present, and’years of original 
labour supplemented by at least a hundred other contri- 
butors. I have not at my disposal either the space, the 
time, or the collaborators. All that has been attempted, 
—and not, I venture to think, without some success,—has 
been the selection of a couple of dozen stations on widely 
different parts of the coast, and some notes are given on 
these that were kindly furnished by sportsmen who have 
fished there comparatively recently. So careful have I 
been, believing this to be the crucial point, not to hash 
up old information, that many spots that I fished but 
three or four years back are either altogether omitted, or 
referred to only incidentally. As for the notes on sea- 
fishing in foreign and colonial waters, no more than a 
very short selection could be made; but I have, supple- 
menting my own notes with those of Mr. H. A. Bryden, 
been able to offer some idea of the sport that may be ex- 
pected on the coasts of South Africa and Australia, as 
