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NUMBER III. 

 Referred to from Part II. page 425, n. 



JANUARY. 



SPRING BLACK. Body, black wool of a sheep's 

 face, with or without a greenish peacock's herl; 

 warp with brown silk. Wing, the grey feather of a 

 mallard. 



SECOND SPRING BLACK. Body, the very blackest 

 part of the darkest hare's scut you can procure ; with 

 or without a greenish peacock's herl. Warp with 

 ash-coloured silk. Wing, of a field- fare's feather. 



This, and the other, spring black are best taken in 

 bright weather. 



BLOA* HERL. Body, black rabbit's scut; black of 

 a hare's scut ; greenish peacock's herl ; warp with 

 brown silk : wing, the light part of a fieldfare's fea- 

 ther. 



BLACK HACKLE, Body, pale yellow silk ; with a 

 black cock's hackle turned about it. 



DUN HACKLE. Body, dun-coloured silk; with a 

 dun cock's hackle. 



* This is a north country word, and as I am told, signifies a colour 

 resembling that of a mole's back, which has a blueish gloss. I find 

 it, thus, explained in a catalogue of local words, communicated in a 

 Letter from Mr. Thoresby, of Leeds, to Mr. Ray : " BLOA, black and 

 " blue." Philosophical letters between the learned Mr. Ray, and several 

 of his ingenious correspondents, Octavo, 1718, page 321. 



