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fasten a very large ledger lead, or a piece of flat lead, 

 which should weigh nearly a pound, to keep the hooks 

 and line from drifting ; use hooks of the size No. 6, tied 

 to twisted gut, silk, or fine gimp, and bait with pieces 

 of lean corned boiled beef, about the size of a broad 

 bean. If you hold the line in your hand, you will 

 feel a bite ; snatch the line sharp, and with force, and 

 you will hook the Eel. — Note, this mode of fishing 

 should be practised from the ebbing of the tide until 

 it is quite low water. 



The Grayling, or Umber. 

 The Grayling, or Umber, is not to be met with in the 

 rivers about London, but abounds in the river Tem, 

 about nine miles from Ludlow, and in the Severn, the 

 Wye, and the Trent ; the nearest river I have found 

 them in to London, is the Avon, at Salisbury : they 

 delight in rapid streams, and, so swift are their 

 movements, that the Roman poet, Decius Ausonius 

 says of them. 



