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and make it light in the hand. The rod for a 

 fly must by no means be top-heavy, but very 

 well mounted, and exactly proportionable, as 

 well as slender and gentle at top ; otherwise it 

 will neither cast well, strike readily, nor ply 

 and bend equally, which will very much en- 

 danger the line." 



We have placed in this chapter every thing 

 that is necessary, even for the most curious, to 

 know respecting all that pertains to a fly-rod, 

 and if the reader take the trouble to study and 

 compare its contents, he may, to all useful 

 intents and purposes, consider himself suffi- 

 ciently learned on the subject. 



