PREFACE.Custom having pronounced that a book is incomplete without a prefatory introduction, it might savour of arrogance if the tribute were withheld in the present instance, although to a novice the task of complying with this injunction is not a little embarrassing.In order to explain the motives which directed the intrusion of the following pages upon the public, it may be necessary to premise, tbat desire of fame, or expectation of profit, was not amongst the number. A wish that every lover of the angle should partici-pate in the advantages to be derived from a constant reference to the representations of the insects on which his diversion so materially depends, induced the writer to publish his observations on angling and specimens of flies, which were originally only intended for private inspection.Table of Contents CONTENTS; PiOt; Advantages and Pleasures of Fly Fishing 1; Angling, Instructions for 45; --Seasons and Times for 64; Fish that rise at the Fly, Description and Haunts of, viz; Bfcak 81; Chub, Chevin or Chavinder 80; Dace 81; Graining 77; Gravel Fry 72; Grayling 74; Gray Mullet 78; Roach 81; Salmon 58; Trout 68; Flies, Artificial, Met bod of Dressing 37; ___Directions for Making the following-; Ant, Great Black 122; --Ked 123; - Small Black 123; Black Gnat 92; vi; CONTENTS; pao i; Flies, Artificial, continued-; Black Harl Fly 107; Black Midge 115; Blue Blow 114; Blue Gnat 120; Brown Cadis or Orl Fly 107; Brown-winged Fly 109; Canon Fly, Dowulooker, or Oak Fly 121; Cinnamon Fly 116; Cow-dung Fly 100; Cream-coloured Fly 102; Downlooker,-Oak-Fly, or Canon Fly --121; Dun Drake or March Brown 93; Dun Flies-; Blue Dun 99; Brown Dun 109; Dun Fly 100; Great Dark Dun95; Pale Evening Dun 120; Summer Dun 106; Yellow Dun 101; Fern Fly or Mealy Brown 98; Granam or Green Tail 105; Gravel or Spider Fly 103; Gray Drake 115; Great lted Spinner 119; CONTENTS Vii; r ao b; Flies, Artificial