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which seem to have escaped the Doctor, and the 

 great authorities that he has quoted. 



1. I know from actual experience, that there 

 needs no other process for making these berries 

 up, than that which I have set down ; as for the 

 wheaten-meal, which Mr. Ray mentions, it is to- 

 tally useless, the plain berries pounded, and made 

 into a paste by adding water, being a sufficient 

 preparation. 



2. It not only depends upon the size of the 

 fishes, but upon the quantity of the paste which 

 they pick up, which makes these berries kill the 

 fishes, or only renders them vertiginous or intoxi- 

 cated ; If you take them out with a landing-net, 

 and put them into a sufficient quantity of water, 

 those will soon recover who have only had a 

 small share of the paste, and may be eaten when 

 well-gutted and cleaned, with the greatest 



safety. 



3. That these berries are of a deleterious na- 

 ture, is sufficiently obvious by what has been said 

 before. A porter-brewer in London, some time 

 ago, forfeited a considerable sum for fining his 

 liquor with these berries. It is but necessary to 

 know these secrets; but I am sure no true lover 

 of angling will ever make use of them ; only by 

 being'acquainted with them, it will enable him 

 to detect poachers, and I hope when he meets 

 with any, that he will put in full force the laws 

 against them, so judiciously appropriated to clear 

 the country of such a set of rascals. 



TO TAKE A PIKE AS ITE LIES ^ASKING IN 

 MARCH OR AUGUST. 



Take a long pole or rod, that is light and 

 straight, and on the small end fasten a running 



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