THE

MODERN FISHER;

OR,

DRIFFIELD ANGLER:

IN TWO PARTS:

CONTAINING,

Descriptions of the different kinds of

FRESH WATER FISH,
And the best methods of taking them in rivers, lakes,
and fish-ponds; with full

DIRECTIONS FOR BAITS,

And the manner of making ARTIFICIAL FLIES for every
month in the season.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SHOOTING:
With rules for the breeding, breaking, and management of
POINTERS AND SPANIELS:

AND THE CHOICE OF

GUNS FOR GAME AND WILD FOWL.

With a description of the FOREST of BLAIR, in Perthshire, belonging
to his Grace the Duke of Athol; and the manner of killing Deer.

ALSO

A SHORT TREATISE ON COURSING,

AND THE

TRAINING OF GREYHOUNDS.

BY ALEXANDER MACKINTOSH.

DERBY:

PRINTED BY AND FOR HENRY MOZLEY,
BROOK-STREET.

ΤΟ

HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF ATHOL,

&c. &c. &c. &c.

My Lord Duke,

With the utmost humility I presume to dedicate to your Grace the following sheets.

Your Grace's well known liberality, and the protection you afford to the fair sportsman, will plead in my behalf for the liberty I have taken.

That you may long continue to enjoy those amusements, which you so happily blend with pursuits far more important, for the good of your country, and the benefit of mankind, is the sincere wish of,

My Lord Duke,

your Grace's most

devoted and most

obedient servant,

ALEXANDER MACKINTOSH.

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