60 Denny 's' " Secrets of Angling?' 



known, which I, with full acknowledgment 

 to them, quote as follows : 



" This poem is also noticed, with large 

 citations, in an article in the Censura 

 Literaria, 1809, vol. x., p. 266, which 

 was appropriated by Daniel * and inserted 

 in the supplement to his Rural Sports, 

 1813. Its authorship was set at rest in 

 1811, by the evidence of the books of 

 the Stationers' Company, in which the 

 work is entered as being by JOHN 



* On referring to my copy of the Rev. W. B. 

 Daniel's Rural Sports, I find I am able to supply 

 an omission in the Bibliotheca Piscatoria, which 

 makes no mention of the edition I have Royal 

 8vo, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, 

 Paternoster Row, 1807; also to correct an 

 American angling writer, Mr. A. Nelson Chene3 T , 

 who, in one of his pleasant angling Notes in 

 Forest and Stream; or, Shooting and Fishing, 

 January 1893, claims that the multiplier reel 

 was invented in America about the year 1820. 

 In this 1807 edition of Daniel's Rural Sports, 

 not the first edition of the work, there is a fine 

 engraving of a brass multiplying reel. I have 

 no doubt multiplying reels were in use much 

 earlier than this. In 1770 Onesimus Ustonson 

 advertised that he sold " the best sort of multi- 

 plying brass winches, both stop and plain " ; he 

 also advertised "superfine silkworm gut, no 

 better ever seen in England, as fine as hair, as 

 strong as six, the only thing for trout, carp, and 

 salmon." The first mention I have found of the 

 use of a reel at all is in Barkers Delight, 1651. 



