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food that fishes have, both at top and bottom, 

 makes them very nice, and more difficult to be 

 taken, than in the spring or in the autumn ; the 

 great number of flics and insects which are on 

 the water all tlie summer months, totally disap- 

 pear, about the middle of August, so that your 

 diversion is as certain with the three autumnal 

 JiicSy viz. the Little Whirling BluCj the Pale 

 Blue, and the Willow-fly, as with the three spring 

 fliesy which are the Red-fly, the Blue Dun, and 

 the Brown. In these two seasons of the year, 

 if the weather is favourable, and the water in 

 order, you will find your sport more certain and 

 reirular than in the hotter months. This last list 

 of flies may be deemed the standard of artificial 

 Jiij-/ishing ; they are the ingenious Bowlker's of 

 Ludlow in Shropshire. For theirexcellency they 

 are not to be equalled. They will kill flsh in 

 any county of England and Wales, and are, what 

 I call the angler s treasure. Their names are uni- 

 versally known: as for the flics called Lochaher's 

 Golden Sooty s, &c. &.c. which are to be met with 

 in a late publication, they are not sufflciently 

 known to be of general use. 



Not only those flies that are most useful, in 

 the recreation of angling, but myriads more 

 come under the angler's observation, when in 

 pursuit of his pastime, which will not only fill 

 his mind with wonder and admiration, at the in- 

 comprehensible works of Naiure, but like- - 

 wise make him praise that Almighty Power, 

 from whom both himself and them derive their 

 being. 



Tliere is so beautiful a passage a-propas to this 

 subject, in Mr. Thomson's Summer, that I think 

 the insertion of some part of it, must prove ac- 

 ceptable to the informed and pious nund : 



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