2ig rhe BRITISH ANGLER.PJL 

 warm Weather one has been known to live 

 five Days out of the Water. 



There are feveral Soxts o? Eels \ as they?/- 

 ver Eel'-, th^ green ox greenijh Eel^ which in 

 the River of Thames are called Grigs %d. hlacki/b 

 EeU whofe Head is flatter and bigger than the 

 common Eels \ and an Eel whofe Fins are 

 reddifh, which is but feldom taken in this 

 Nation. Moft allow, that the filver Eel is 

 viviparous, that isjbrings forth her Young alive, 

 not by Spawning like other Fifh, but that her 

 Brood come perfed from her, no bigger nor 

 longer than Pins. 



The Eel may be caught with divers Kinds 

 of Baits: Powdered Beef^ a Loh ox Garden- 

 worm^ a Frog^ a Minnow^ or other fmall Fifh, 

 the Gut of a Hen^ Chicken^ or any Fifh, or 

 almoft any Offals will tempt him -, for he is 

 a greedy Fifh. But a very little Lamprey^ 

 which fome call a Pride^ and which may in 

 the hot Months be found m the River Thames^ 

 and in many Mud-heaps in other Rivers, al- 

 moft as commonly as one finds Worms in a 

 Dunghill, exceeds every other Bait. 



The £^/ feldom ilirs in the Day, and there- 

 fore he is ufually caught at Night with one of 

 thefe Baits, by laying Plooks, which you are 

 to fallen to the Bank or Twigs of a Tree ; or 

 by throwing a String crofs the Stream with ma- 

 ny Hooks at it, baited with the aforefaid 

 Baits, and a Clod, Plummet, or Stone, thrown 

 inco the River with it, that fo you may in 



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