The field book : or, Sports and pastimes of the United kingdom ; compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern (1833)
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792-1850 · London : E. Wilson · leaf 213
e and doublewings, last during the fishing season. In fly-fishing, the angler should recollect totake with him some portion of all the differentmaterials for fly-making : so whimsical some-times are trouts, that they may be seen to takeinsignificant flies greedily, which at other timesthey would… … Of the birds which constitute this class, wefind only two kinds that inhabit this island,and these are not the most numerous of thevarious tribes with which this country abounds. The characters of this genus with us aresomewhat equivocal, and not well ascertained; neither do we know of any common…
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