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gler that relies on them. You may make the 

 Top of your Line, and indeed all of it, ex- 

 cept a Yards next txhe Hook, of a coarfer 

 Hair. Always let the Top of your Line, 

 whether in muddy or clear Waters, be made 

 of white Hair-, becaufe the Motion of the 

 Line, when the Fifh bite, will be far more 

 difcernible, than if they were either of black 

 or brown Hair. 



Never ftrain your Hairs before they are 

 made into a Line, as feme do ; for then they 

 will fhrink, when ufed. The flrongeft and 

 befl are eafily feleded by the Eye. 



To make the Line handfome, and to twill 

 the Hair even and neat, gives it Strength : For 

 if one Hair is long, and another fhort, the 

 fhort one receiving no Strength from the long 

 one, confequendy breaks *, and then the o- 

 ther, as too weak, breaks alfo. Therefore 

 twifl them llowly, and in twifting, keep them 

 from entangling, which hinders their right 

 plaiting or bedding together: Twift] them 

 neither too hard nor too flack, but even, fo 

 as they may twine one with another, and no 

 more. Your Links may be tied to each other 

 with a Fifher's Knot, or, as fome call it, a 

 Water-knot, which every Angler knows how 

 to make. 



The mixing Hair and Silk is no ways good 

 for Lines : But if your Lines mufl be very 

 ilrong, make them all of Hair, or all of Silk 

 that is white ; becaufe white Silk is ilrongefi, 

 and will not rot fo quickly as the coloured. 



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