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DAYS OF FLY FISHING.

IN

A SERIES OF CONVERSATIONS.

WITH

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE HABITS OF FISHES BELONGING
TO THE GENUS SALMO.

BY AN ANGLER. 8.

[ Sir Humphrey Davy I

"Equidem credo quia sit divinitus illis

Ingenium."

FIRST AMERICAN FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION.

PHILADELPHIA:

CAREY AND LEA CHESNUT STREET.

1832.

,

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ΤΟ

WILLIAM BABINGTON,

M.D. F.R.S.

THESE CONVERSATIONS ARE DEDICATED,

IN REMEMBRANCE

OF SOME DELIGHTFUL DAYS PASSED IN HIS

SOCIETY,

AND IN GRATITUDE

FOR AN UNINTERRUPTED FRIENDSHIP OF

A

QUARTER OF A CENTURY.

PREFACE.

THESE pages formed the occupation of the Author during some months of severe and dangerous illness, when he was wholly incapable of attending to more useful studies, or of following more serious pursuits. They constituted his amusement in many hours, which otherwise would have been unoccupied and tedious; and they are published in the hope, that they may possess an interest for those persons, who derive pleasure from the simplest and most attainable kind of rural sports, and who practice the art, or patronize the objects of contemplation, of the Philosophical Angler.

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