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In a Word, as the great Difficulty is to ob- 

 tain the Colour of the Fly which the Fifh take 

 at the Inftant of your Angling, it is impoffi- 

 ble to give any certain Diredions on that 

 Head ; becaufe feveral Rivers and Soils are 

 haunted by peculiar Sorts of Flies, and the 

 Flies that comes ufually in fuch a Month of 

 the Year, may the fucceeding Year come al- 

 moft a Month fooner or later, as the Seafon 

 proves colder or hotter. 



Tho' fometimes Fip change their Fly once 

 or twice in one Day, yet ufually they feek not 

 for another Sort, till they have for fome 

 Days glutted themfelves with a former, which 

 is commonly when thofe Flies are near Death, 

 and ready to go out. 



Having mentioned the Angler's Magazine- 

 hag^ with a Word or two of its Furniture, I 

 Ihall here fet down more at large the Particu- 

 lars of what may be ufcful on thefe Occafions, 

 of which the diligent Angler will know how 

 to make his Advantage. 



I. Bears Hair of diverfe Colours and 

 Shades; as gray, dun, light coloured, fiid 

 coloured, bright lliining, and bright brown. 

 2, Camels Hair, fad, light, and of a middle 

 Colour. 3. Badgers Hair, or the brownilh 

 loft Fur, which is on fome Part of the Badg- 

 er's Skin, after it is in the Skinners Lime-pits. 

 4. Spaniels foft Fur and Hair, from divers 

 Parts of the Body, and of various Colours, 

 as particularly all Sorts of Browns and 

 Blacks. J. Procure froin the Butchers, 



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