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place ; where the artist also, if he be ingenious, 

 may consult and examine the methods of expe- 

 riments, so make himself master of this solitary 

 mystery; otherwise let him remain silent among 

 proficients, and a profest ignoramus among prac- 

 titioners. And among the variety of your fly- 

 adventurers, remember the hackle, or the fly- 

 substitute, form'd without wings, and drest up 

 with the feather of a capon, pheasant, partridg, 

 moccaw, phlimingo, paraketa, or the like, and 

 the body nothing differing in shape from the 

 fly, save only in ruffness and indigency of wings. 

 Another necessary observation, is the wing of 

 your fly, which ought to proceed from the teal, 

 heron, malard, or faulcon. The pinion and wing 

 thereof ought to lie close, and so snug as to car- 

 ry the point exactly downward. But the last 

 thing material is, the moderate stroak, which 

 always proves mortal, and best succeeds if used 

 without violence; the line also, keep that streight 

 as occasion requires, so that nothing be remiss, 

 nor any thing wanting ; and the necessity of the 

 wheel be sure you remember. 



The salmon loves those rapid rivers, where 



The craggy rocks above the streams appear. 



In deepest waters, and in strongest streams 



He lives ; yet like a martyr sometimes dies in flames. 



