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F a Man 'xas to read over all the 

 Books of Angling that have been 

 puhlijhed for about a Hundred 

 Tears pafi^ he 'would be apt to think 

 that this Science was like Poetry j 

 fwt only for Mr, WaltonV Reafon^ becaufe Men 

 viuft be born with Inclinations to it^ but becaufe 

 it feems to have arrived at its highefl Perfeofion 

 almofl at once^ and to have been the fame in the 

 faid Mr, Walton as the other was in Homer. 

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