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which he eminently did when he manifested his 

 glorious inside, by the excellency and beauty of 

 the external outside of this stupendous and most 

 admirable creation. 



Am. You have sum'd it up right, and said 

 nothing but truth ; the truth is the Alpha and 

 Omega ; the beginning of all beings, and the 

 end of all times ; the infinite invisibility made 

 visible ; the immaculate humanity clothed with 

 divinity ; the glory, beauty, and wisdom of the 

 Father ; the beatifical vision ; the light of the 

 world that now is, ever was, and for ever and 

 ever will remain so to be, when death and time 

 shall be no more. And now give me leave to 

 recommend unto you (most worthy your obser- 

 vation) these general rules for fish and fishing, 

 with directions also for baits and seasons. 



Theoph. Be you my tutor, and He be your 

 pupil. 



THE SALMON. 



Am. As the salmon is a monarch and king 

 in the freshes, so he is the ultimate result of the 

 angler's conquest. This royal game (all the sum- 

 mer-time) has his residence in the rapid and for- 

 cible streams in rivers ; but the sea is his sanc- 

 tuary most months in the winter : So that a 

 man may rationally conclude, without a paren- 



