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PICTET, F. J., 128, 185 n. 

 POPE, ALEXANDER, 84. 

 POWELL, G. H., 7n. 

 PRIME, W. C., 217. 

 PRITT, T. E., 150, 154, 157. 

 PRUDENTIUS, 40. 



PULMAN, G. P. R., 84, 103, 213. 



first writer on dry fly, 97, 122124. 



QUARLES, FRANCIS. 



introduction of Shepheards Oracles, written by Walton, 



197. 

 RAVENNA, BATTLE OF, 6. 



RED QUILL, 143, 177. 



history and dressings of, 163164. 

 RED SEDGE, 144. 



history and dressings of, 165166. 

 not mentioned till nineteenth century, 165; 

 RED SPINNER, 177, 189. 



mentioned in Treatise, 26, 162; by Mascall, 38, 117; in 



Traitte, 164; history and dressings of, 162 164. 

 RED TAG, 73. 

 REEL, 



forerunner of, used by Fortin, 53, 54; first mentioned by 

 Barker, 70; figured by Venables, 70; multiplying, first 

 mentioned, 88; in general use, for salmon, 88; for 

 trout, 88. 



RHEAD, LOUIS, 188. 

 RINGS, 



first mentioned, 95; history of, 95. 

 ROD. 



jointed, in Treatise, 20; and ferrulled, 20, 87; spliced rod 

 first mentioned by Lawson, 86; disappearance of 

 spliced to-day, 86, 87. 



length of, in Treatise, 23; Cotton, 23, 67; long rods used 

 till nineteenth century, 23, 28, 85; Stewart first to 

 advise short rod, 85; Halford, 86. 



materials for (and see split cane below) in Treatise, 19, 20; 

 hazel the favourite, 20, 90; whole cane, 40; Lawson, 41; 

 Cotton, 67, 68; Venables, 68; hickory, lancewood and 

 greenheart in nineteenth century, 9092; greenheart 

 disliked at first, 91, 92. 



split cane, first mentioned 1801, 92; is three or four- 

 sectioned, 92; English invention, 93; inventor, 93; 

 superseded by greenheart, 94; greenheart superseded 

 by six-sectioned cane, 94; an American invention, 94. 

 in France, first mention, 52, 53. 



could be bought in Markham's time, 48; and Cotton's, 68. 

 ' rush grown/ 68. 



