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ror, by ftating a circumflance that I 

 Lave witneflcd: on March the eighth 

 when fitting by a ftrcam to repair my 

 line, I obierved a flone fly crawling 

 upon the gravel, which excited my cu- 

 riciity fo fax as to make trial of an ar- 

 tificial ore, the confequence of which 

 was, great cliverfion fiom half pad ele- 

 ven until one, when the trout ceafed 

 rifing ; it was on a deep flow ft ream, 

 tli at is generally tinged with red tuibu- 

 ry water, but 1 have never found fo 

 much fuccefs on rapid flreams with it 

 io early in the feafon. 



This fly is near an inch long, the 

 body is made of the brown fur of a hare's 

 ear, mixed with nearly the fame quan- 

 tiiy of yellow camlet, ribbed with yel- 

 low filk, the underfide is much paler 

 at the head than tail; it has four wings, 

 which lie flat on its back, that are 

 made of a pea-hen's feather, with a 

 grizzle hackle wrapped twice around 

 under them. Is often mado with the 

 grizzle hackle from a cock's back, with- 



