66 best's art of angling. 



also when your hand will feel him give a strong 

 snatch; then strike him, and he will be your 

 own, if you pliiy liim well ; but if you do not 

 manage him with dexterity, he will break your 

 tackle. You must have on vour rod a winch, 

 and a line on it about thirty yards long. 



Barbels are the worst and coarest of fresh- 

 water fishes, and seldom eaten bnt by the poorer 

 sort of people, who sometimes boil them with a 

 bit of bacon, to give them a relish. They are 

 sometimes taken of the length of three feet, and 

 eighteen pounds in weight. 



The most famous places near London for bar- 

 bel-angling are Kingston-bridgey and Skeppertoii- 

 deeps; but H'allon-deepSf Chcitsey-hridgey Hamp- 

 ton-ferrijy and the holes under Ctyopers-hiU hxq in 

 nowise inferior. You mav likewise meet with 

 them at all the locks between Maidenhead and 

 Oxford, 



N. B. Their spawn acts as a violent cathartic 

 and emetic. His liver is likewise unwholesome. 

 The hooks for this fish No. 1 or 2. 



ANGUILLZ, 



The Efly authors of natural history, in regard 

 to the eel, have advanced various conjectures; 

 and in some measure contradicted each other 

 entirely on this head, namely : Whether they 

 are produced by generation or corruption, as 

 worms are, or by certain gluttinous drops of 

 dew, which falling i-n May and June, on the 

 banks of some ponds or rivers, are by the heat 

 of the sun turned into eels. Abr. Mylius, in a 

 treatise GO, the or/gvVi of animals y describes a me- 

 thod of producing them by art. H e says, that if 

 you cut up two turfs covered with May-dew, 



