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repeatedly seen six and seven thus obtained during a night, 

 or rather, in the space of a couple of hours j for the 

 fishes in question do not, I believe, ramble much from 

 their rocky haunts, except at night; when they are very 

 busy. We always had the best sport between twelve 

 and two o'clock. 



OF FLY-FISHING. 



This is, without doubt, the most cleanly, most pleas- 

 ing, most elegant, and most difficult part of the science ! 

 The apparatus being comparatively small, renders it also 

 less burthensome in many respects ; though the manage- 

 ment of the rod will, for a while, cause the arm to expe- 

 rience many an ache : a moderate period of practice, 

 however, soon habituates to that motion which, at the 

 first, gives some uneasiness, and furnishes to the angler a 

 certain habit (which we may be right in considering as a 

 knack), that gives both freedom of motion, and ease 

 from weariness. 



It is remarkable, that no one has yet (or at least I have 

 not met with any publication that has) supplied the 

 learner with such plain matter-of-fact directions, in re- 

 spect to the management of tiisjiy-rod, as should at once 

 enable him to cast his line out without constraint. 



The want of such indispensable instruction causes my 

 being more particular in my directions on that head ; for 

 it appears to me impossible for any person to succeed in 

 this branch, who does not, in the first instance, acquire 

 the only true mvthud of throwing the line with that inex- 

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