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THE

ANGLING EXCURSIONS

OF

GREGORY GREENDRAKE, Esq.

IN THE COUNTIES OF

WICKLOW, MEATH, WESTMEATH,
LONGFORD, AND CAVAN,

WITH ADDITIONS,

BY

GEOFFREY GREYDRAKE, Esq.

DEDICATED TO

"ALL HONEST BROTHERS OF THE ANGLE."

FOURTH EDITION.

DUBLIN:

GRANT AND BOLTON, 4, DAME-STREET,

AND

-LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND
LONGMAN, LONDON.

THE

PUBLISHERS' ADVERTISEMENT.

THE very amusing and original papers here presented to the public, will be found to combine the charms of imagination and legendary lore, with rich and faithful descriptions of local scenery and manners, and, we doubt not, will create a strong wish in those who shall peruse this little volume, that GREGORY GREENDRAKE may extend his Angling Excursions, and continue to his readers a source of pleasure, in communicating which he displays, appropriate to his subject, a degree of talent not inferior to the most popular and established writers of the day.

A Fourth Edition of these pleasing Excursions has been called for by more than the "gentle lovers of the angle," and the present publishers obey the call, under the advantages of presenting to the reader, much additional matter, from the pen, and aided by the editorship, of an eminent and ingenious Irish member of the great piscatorial family, named, in just keeping with the natural mutations of the May-fly, Mr. GEOFFREY GREYDRAKE;