Excerpt from The Art of Angling: As Practised in Scotland The very limited number, if not total want, of disserta tions upon the subject of Angling in Scotland, and the necessity for having something like an index to our lochs and streams, have induced us to throw together the fol lowing chapters. In character and produce, our waters differ very essentially from those of England; we have clear and rapid rivers - torrents black with mosses, or pel lucid as diamond - lakes large, and gleaming-tarns deep, still, and terrible, and of these, some are stored with prime, subtle trout, and others are frequented by the active salmon, the monarch of the flood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.