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of the silk, under die several laps made since it was turned 

 back, and become a very secure finishing. 



But where you whip in the middle of any long stick, 

 &c. so that your loop cannot be kept clear, by passing 

 round its end, as the foregoing directions suppose to be 

 practicable, you may, instead of passing the end back, 

 lay a large needle, or a bodkin suitable to the thickness of 

 your silk, &c. close to the rod, &c. and lap it in, not very 

 tightly, for three or four turns. When your whipping 

 lias reached as far as you intended, pass the silk through 

 the eye of the needle, and draw it under the laps which 

 you had made over the needle ; you must, however, 

 afterwards draw every lap close in its turn, before you 

 pull the end tight. See Fig. 5, Plate V. 



Of the Landing- Net, and of landing Fish. 



This, in many situations, is next to indispensable j 

 since it must often happen, that large fishes are caught 

 by means of such slender tackle, as could not possibly be 

 'trusted to lift them out of the water. 



But, even if the line were tolerably strong, it would 

 be highly improper to put it to any great strain on such 

 an occasion ; for though the line itself might not snap 

 short, nor the rod be injured, yet the hook might pos- 

 sibly draw off, and thus liberate the fish ; add to this, 

 that die hold might give way. 



The whole of these inconveniences are obviated, by 

 means of a moderate- si zed net, fixed to a metal, or a 

 whalebone frame, and furnished wiih a pole about five 

 feet long, so as to enable the angler, while he keeps the 

 fish in play with the rod in his right hand, to slip the 

 frame obliquely under the fish's head, crossing the 



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