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narrow-mouthed and well-glassed Gally-pot, close covered with a Bladder and 

 Leather ; and when you go to Angle, take some of it in a small pewter Box, 

 made taper, and anoint eight inches of the Line, next the Hook, therewith, and 

 when washed off repeat the same. This Oyntment which, for its excellency, 

 I will call Unguentum Piscatorum mirabile, prodigiously causes Fish to bite, 

 if in the hand ofatt Artist that angles within water, and in proper Seasons 

 and Times, and with suitable Tackle and Baits fit and proper for the River, 

 Season, and Fish he designs to catch. The Man's Fat you may get of the 

 London Chyrurgeons, concerned in anatomy, and the Heron's Fat from the 

 Poulterers, in London ; the rest are to be had from Druggists or Apothecaries, 

 and this Composition will serve you two or three Summer's angling. I forbore 

 (for some reasons) to insert the same in my fifth edition ; but now since it's 

 divulged, value it not the less, but esteem it as a jewel. They that would 

 try other Experiments, not before inserted, and be curious, let them consult 

 a Book, called, " Modern Curiosities of Art and Nature," page 178. But upon 

 frequent Essays, this last hath the preeminence, and is found to excel 

 them all. 



This is, with the exception of the Secrets of Angling, the 

 only book which gives indications of the behef of its 

 author in the efficacy of the ointment it describes. In 

 the same book we find the following : — 



When you Angle at Ground in a clear water, or dibble with natural flies, 

 Angle going up the River : but in muddy water or with Dub-flie Angle going 

 down the River. 



On artificial and dub-fly angling, the author again says : — 



The flie is always to be on the very surface or top of the water, and 

 you are to Angle going doion the River. 



And again : — 



To Fish fine and far off is the great Rule in all manner of Flie Angling. 



This author also gives an opinion upon the use of a wire 

 ring at the top of the rod, and a wheel in the middle, for 

 great salmon angling, almost in Walton's own words. 

 The Irwell is mentioned as one of the principal rivers in 



