Field Topics of the Week: … Angling … Amongst the letters will be found a not unprofitably inquiry by “John Bickerdyke” into the characteristics of a Thames trout, a hint being cast forth that perhaps the fish may be descended from the sea trout. Another correspondent writes corroborating the remarks of Lady Pinsent concerning the illegal fishing on Newfoundland Rivers, and supplies an insight into affairs in that colony, which explain how much practices survive the laws promulgated to abolish them …
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GRO0254 Hennock: Emily Hetty Sabine Homfray: 1845 – 1922