Notes and recollections of an angler: rambles among mountains, valleys, and solitudes of Wales

John Henry Cliffe

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NOTES AND RECOLLECTIONS
AN ANGLER.OFPRINTERS,AND TAYLOIl,SONS,CLAY,
HILL.BKEAD STREETANDNOTES BECOLLECTIONS
OF AN ANGLEK:
RAMBLES AMONG THE MOUNTAINS, VALLEYS,
AND SOLITUDES OF WALES.
WITH SKETCHES OF SOME OF THE LAKES, MOUNTAINSSTREAMS,
IX BOTH DIVISIONS OF THE PRINCIPALITY.
IJY JOHN HENEY CLIFFE.
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Old Welsli Triad.
LONDON :
& CO.HAMILTON, ADAMS,
PATERNOSTER ROW.32,
1870.730
are the result of excursions intoTHE following pages WALES,
over a of more than Some of theextending period twenty years.
wild solitudes described are out of the beaten track ; and,entirely
as far as I am are either not oraware, mentioned, only slightly
"" Books.alluded to in the various Tours and Guide
the increased facilities for affordedIn ofconsequence travelling
the which have been constructed within the last fewby railways,
the influx of tourists and into Wales has very greatlyyears, anglers
not theand has been toincreased; point out, onlymy object
it seldomhidden of the if I so termscenery country may
the and thethe wild mountainexplored, tops, lonely Llyns,
secluded but to afford the lovers of more minutecwms, angling
of some of the Stations than haveparticulars principal Fishing
to sethitherto ever been In I have endeavouredshort,published.
localities Ibefore the reader a truthful of the severaldescription
one or twohave and have withvisited, described, exceptions, only
what has come under own observation. How faractually my
I have succeeded in humble it will remain for themy attempt,
to I have also at some of the ofantiquitiespublic judge. glanced
morethe "those silent memorials of a age"country by-gone
the remains have fallen inCELTIC and DRUIDICAL whichespecially,
rambles the wilds.my way during my amongst
I here be to warmest thanks to themay permitted express my
and moresubscribers whose names are to thisappended book, par-
the I am to kind friends forunder severalticularly, obligations
their zealous exertions to its success.promote
J. H. C.
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