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Till where thy widening current glides 

 To mingle with the turbid tides, 

 Thy spacious breast displays unfurl' d 

 The ensigns ofth' assembled world." 



As at the beginning of these Notes it may have been 

 put down as a grand omission that I did not deal with 

 salmon, so at the end of them it may be noticed that I 

 have omitted a discourse on eels and lamperns. I have 

 already given a reason — a good one, I think — for the first 

 omission ; for the last I can offer two. The one is that 

 I have no space left for eels (to say nothing of lamperns), 

 having already transgressed the number of pages assigned 

 for my memoranda and miscellaneous chit-chat; and to 

 deal fully with eels, and the variety of questions connected 

 with these strange creatures, would involve a larger Note 

 than any I have yet written. The other reason is that 

 eels, though most interesting animals, hardly seem to 

 rank with fish, I do not mean ichthyologically, but with 

 fish which the angler makes the object of his pursuit. Of 

 course this remark may apply to some of the " small fry " 

 just treated of; but, be this as it may, I must, at least 

 for the present, leave eels to take care of them- 

 selves. 



There were other Notes I had intended to make, as a 

 sort of Part III. to this piscatorial farrago, e. g. on 

 " Pishing in Devonshire," and especially in Slapton Lea • 

 on " Pishing in the Eastern Counties," especially in the 

 " Norfolk Broads ; " and on " Pisciculture and the Pre- 

 servation of Fresh- water Fish" — but all these must be 

 omitted simply because there is no room for them. My 

 last Note, then, just by way of making a "tail'' to 

 my modest contribution to angling literature — (call it 



