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it makes, and of their differing in size, shape, 

 and colour. 



The larger sort of these imitated, could not 

 fail of doing execution in large rivers, and the less 

 in less rivers. And yet, I think, we have flies 

 enow in our island, by imitating which a judi- 

 cious angler may succeed well enough. I shall 

 mention some of them, and how to dress them. 



The green-drake, the whirling-dun, the stone 

 or May-fly, the hornet, the wasp, the owl- fly, 

 and several others. Some of these, dressed a third, 

 or, for some rivers, twice as big as the life, I am 

 sure will do in all our Northern rivers. The 

 three first of them are natural baits, being bred 

 in rivers, and where, for that reason, salmon and 

 trout will take them the better. 



The green-drake is bred of the caddis or straw- 

 bait. She excludes her eggs upon bits of rushes, 

 bents, straws, sticks, &c. in still or slow-running 

 by-places in rivers, in ditches, &c. In March 

 you see them creeping about in such places, with 

 their head and shoulders out of their cases, and 

 may easily take them up, with a small stick cleft 

 at the end ; the case is composed of such things 

 as the egg, with a glutinous matter about it, first 

 touches. It lies near a whole year, growing gra- 

 dually, and its case enlarging as it grows, and 

 about the latter end of May, it creeps quite out 

 of its husk, upon the bank among the grass or 

 weeds, till its cramped wings will carry it out of 

 the reach of its enemies. It is of a bright 

 greenish colour, inclining to a pale yellow ; it 

 is above an inch long, its wings are pretty large, 

 and when it sits, they stand up close at the ends, 



