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purpose to destroy him ; as it's probable you 

 may, provided your art, skill and ingenuity do 

 but serve to manage so eminent an encounter. 

 Now give me leave but to step from the water- 

 side to numerate and describe the various brood 

 of salmon ; so to distinguish them according to 

 mode, or as some will have it, the custom of the 

 country. Where note, in the south they call him 

 samlet ; but if you step to the west, he is better 

 known there by the name of skeggar ; when in 

 the east they avow him penk ; but to the north- 

 ward, brood and locltsper, so from thence to a 

 tecon ; then to a salmon. 



Now to recreate with the fly, (meaning the ar- 

 tificial) that's another sort of exercise for the an- 

 gler's diversion ; which ought to be considered, 

 and diversly consulted, in regard of so great va- 

 riety of form, lustre, beauty and proportion. For 

 that end let me advise you, that the ground of 

 your fly be for the most part obscure, of a gloomy, 

 dark and dusky complexion ; fashioned with 

 tofts of bears-hair, blackish or brownish diseo- 

 lour'd wool, interwoven sometimes with pea- 

 cocks feathers, at otherwhiles lap'd about with 

 grey, red, yellow, green, or blewish silk, simple 

 colours, or colours sometimes intermingled. For 

 instance, black and yellow represent the wasp or 

 hornet ; and a promiscuous brown the flesh fly ; 

 so of the rest. For that end consult the humour 



