Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Highlands and Islands, Vol. 1 of 2: Being a Sequel to "Wild Sports of the West"
Of a fresh-run salmon will reward the pilgrim age; and if he fill a creel - as I have done in two brief hours - will he not marvel that, in piscatoral ignorance, unhappy citizens of credit and renown waste time about Lea Bridge, and money in adjacent hostelries, where some flavour less fish, which on the Borders would be kicked away, is immortalized in a glass case; and the skeleton of a pike, which, as a capture, every cowboy in Connemara could emulate, is held out above the mantel-piece as an encouragement for Cockneys to wet their feet, by proving that marshy waters are not ungrateful, and rheuma tism shall have its reward. 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.
