VI CONTENTS. 



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Paste Baits and Smelling Ointments . . . 12 



Ivy Guin .... ib. 



Salmon Roe . . . 15 



Vision of Fishes . . .17 



Nearsiglitedness . . . . .18 



Attention to Colours in Angling . 20 



Gervase Markham's directions . . ib. 



Hearing of Fishes . . . 23 



Researches of John Hunter . . .25 



Remarks of Weber and De Blainville . 26 

 NATURAL FOOD OF FISHES .... ib. 



Spawn a favourite dainty . . . ib. 



Great Fecundity of Fishes . .27 



Experiments of Mr. Harmer . . . ib. 



Table of results . . . . .29 



Voracity and Cannibalism of Fishes . . 30 



Anecdotes of Pikes . . .31 



Perches of the Lake of Geneva . 32 



WATER INSECTS AND OTHER LIVE FOOD . 33 



Grubs and maggots . . . ib. 



Caddis-worms, Cad-bait, or Ruff-coats . . 34 



Interesting economy of these . ' . . ib. 



Grubs of Day Flies and other Insects . . 36 



Figures of these . 37 



Blood worm and its gnat .... ib. 



Shell Fish . . . . . . 38 



Gillaroo trout of Ireland . . . 39 



Water Flies ... . . 40 



Day flies as observed by Reaumur . . ib. 



Land insects swept into the water . . 41 



ANGLERS' IMITATIVE DEVICES . . 42 



Pretended imitations . . . 43 



