ADYERTISEMENT. 



"jl/TUCH of the matter contained in the following 

 pages has already appeared in a series of papers 

 in Fraser's Magazine. In collecting them at the sug- 

 gestion of friends, for publication in a detached form, 

 a good deal of new has been added to the original 

 text. The title of the volume will, it is hoped, suf- 

 ficiently explain the Author's purport; which is, to 

 treat of fish ichthyophagously , not ichthyologically, and 

 to give, not fish science, but fish tattle. 



