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Salmonia: Or Days of Fly Fishing

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    In Sir Humphry Davy: Later years of Sir Humphry Davy

    …and field sports, Davy wrote Salmonia: or Days of Fly Fishing (1828), a book on fishing (after the manner of Izaak Walton) that contained engravings from his own drawings. After a last, short visit to England, he returned to Italy, settling at Rome in February 1829—“a ruin amongst ruins.” Though…

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