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All this, too, is done in a simple, graceful, and flowing style, always amusive, and sometimes humorously illustrative advantages which our philosophical writers do not generally exhibit, but which are more or less evident in every page of Sir Humphry Davy's writings. Salmonia consists of a series of conversations between four characters Halieus, Poietes, Physicus, Ornither.
Babington, "in remembrance of some delightful days passed in his society, and in gratitude for an uninterrupted friendship of a quarter of a century;" and in the preface the author, after saying that the characters are imaginary, intimates that "in the portrait of HALIEUS, given in the last dialogue, a likeness, he thinks, will not fail to be recognised to that of a most estimable physician, ardently beloved by his friends, and esteemed and venerated by the public."
In the "First Day" we have an ingenious vindication of fly fishing against the well-known satire of Johnson and Lord Byron, and the following: Halieus. A noble lady, long distinguished at court for pre-eminent beauty and grace, and whose mind possesses undying charms, has written some lines in my copy of Walton, which, if you will allow me, I will repeat to you:
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