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FRANCIS MARTIN, ESQ., F.S.A.,

NORROY KING OF ARMS.

DEAR SIR,

To you, as an admirer of Nature in

all her varied forms, and as a most ardent troutfisher, I inscribe this trifling work as a small tribute of my esteem.

In your extensive rambles in pursuit of this favourite amusement, you may perhaps have been surpassed by the late Sir Humphry Davy, who visited, I believe, most of the continental rivers; but as to the lakes, rivers, and streams of England