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bridges and broken breaches, occasioned some- 

 times by inundations of water ; out of which ab- 

 scondments any man may angle him, that con- 

 trives but a worm neatly on the end of a wand ; 

 which artifice is probing, and some call it pro- 

 khig ; but we dispute not the term. Now a 

 more expeditious invention, though not half so 

 genteel, is that engine or artifice some call a 

 gleave, but some others the eel-spear. Then 

 there's bobbing with a bunch or cluster of worms, 

 strung upon threads, non-commissionated by an- 

 glers : Yet night-hooks were never prohibited, 

 nor need they, since the eel bites in the heat of 

 the day. You must therefore consider him a fish 

 of an odd humour, that the sight of a worm shall 

 tempt him ashore, though he sacrifice his life to 

 the lust of his adversary. 



The eel and conger lies in sandy bays, 

 On gravel beds, and sometimes in decays. 

 In hollow banks or stanks, in bridges there 

 You'll find this fish as soon as any where. 



LAMPRE. 



The lampre, (or suck-stone,) frequently ac- 

 costs the streams in Severn, and is conversant 

 also with many other rivers in the kingdom of 



