A NECESSARY FOREWOKD 



It will be impossible to follow, with Part II., the plan of 

 Supplementary Notes adopted with the chapters of Part 

 I. The rivers and lakes described by Blakey have not 

 disappeared, but the conditions under which they were 

 accessible, or otherwise, to him, are so changed that the 

 matter printed is of little value as a practical direction 

 "Where to Go" for fishing. So much of pleasant 

 reading, and historical and literary association, are 

 interwoven with itineraries and routes, and there is so 

 wide a substratum of general information, that the 

 section is presented as in the original. This is, 

 however, done with a clear note of warning : the 

 reader who requires up-to-date knowledge of modern 

 angling waters, public or private, should corroborate 

 any statement in Blakey's text hj reference to the 

 Sportsman's Guides for Angling, which are published 

 yearly, such as the Angler's Diary for Great Britain 

 and the Continent, the Sportsman's Guide to the Rivers, 

 Lochs, etc., of Scotland, and the Golfer's and Sportsman's 

 Guide to Ireland. 



The " Where to Go " section which follows embodies 

 much of the information given at length by Blakey 

 in two works specified in the Memoir. In them his 

 principal efforts in the direction of guide-book litera- 

 ture were described : I refer to 27ie Angler's Guide to 

 ■the Rivers and Lalces of England, and a similar Guide 

 to the rivers and lochs of Scotland. I have not seen 

 copies of these on the bookstalls for many years, but 

 no doubt they are occasionally to be found. From the 

 dedication to Mr. Thomson, of Manchester, in the first- 



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