70 The BRITISH ANGLER. P.I. 



Kind, are bred from a Dew left on the 

 Leaves of Trees, Herbs, Plants, or Flowers, 

 which being condenfed by the Sun's generative 

 Heat, in three Days become living Creatures, 

 of feveral Shapes and Colours : But this is evi- 

 dently aMiftake, they being bred of the Spawn 

 of their particular Species, which, in Time, 

 turn to be Butter-flies of various Kinds. In- 

 deed all Flies, tho' bred of Eggs or Seed, re- 

 ceive Life, or vivify, as the Sun's Heat fur- 

 thers or difpofes the feminal Virtue to Anima- 

 tion : But none of them will ever be produced 

 by that Heat, in a Place where the Eggs were 

 not before difpofed, 



jB(?^jare of two Sorts. The Firft is found 

 in mellow, heathy, fandy, light Soils, and 

 gathered after the Plow when the Land is firft 

 broke up from Grazing. This is called the 

 Earth-hob^ JVhite-gruh^ or White-hait, It is 

 a Worm as big as two Magots, hath a red 

 Head, and is all foft, and full of whitifh Guts. 

 You may eafily difcover in what Grounds they 

 moft are *, for there the Crows will be watch- 

 ing, and follow the Plow very clofe : Or you 

 yourfelf may dig one Spade-graft deep in Tan- 

 dy, heathy Ground, that has lain long fallow 

 from the Blow, and find a fufficient Quantity 

 of them. Thefe are a choice Bait from the 

 Beginning of Novernher until after the Middle 

 of ApriU for Chuh^ Roach ^ Dace^ Salmon Smelt Sy 

 ^roiit^ Bream^ ^ench^ and Carp, 



When you gather thefe, put them into a 

 Pot or Firkin, with fome of the Soil they 



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