and as llraight as you can, bathe them, faving 

 Tops, over a gentle fire, and ufe them not till 

 reafoned, till about a year and four months : they 

 )etter if kept two years. 



jw to preferve thefeStocksor Tops from rotting, 



.■orm-eating,rub them over thrice a year with Sal- 



r Linfeed-oyl •, fweet Butter will iervr, if never 



.ed^ and with any of tiiefe\cu miiit ch^fe well 



jur Rods : if bored, pour in either of the Oyls, and 



„'t them bathe therein twenty foui" hours, then pour 



i: out again •, and this will preferve you: Tops and 



itocks fi'ora injury 



How to joynthe Stock or Top together, or how 

 o make all forts of Rods foi: Fly, Ground, or other- 

 vife, with what lengths are belt for feveral foits of 

 'ilhing, I need not here relate ^ fince without putting 

 ?our felf to the trouble, you may purchafe them of 

 iich as fell theiii at no dear rate^. 



How to maJ^ a Line after the he(i mmh^y.. 



LET your Hair be round, and twill it evcn/or dia'c 

 ftrengthens rhe Line \ and let your Hair,as near 

 •, you can, be of an equal bignefs : then lay them in 

 Vater for a quarter or an hour, by which mtans you 

 ill find which of the Hairs do fhrii^k , thantwift 

 lem over again. 



Some intermingle Si'k in thetwifling, but I cannot 

 'pVove of it \ bur a Line ofall Silk is not aniils -, at- 

 a Line made of the frnjilleft Lute-firing is very good. 

 It that it will foon rot by the Water. 

 The belt colour for Lines is th.c forrel, w;hite, and 

 ey -^ the two jalt for clear waters, and rhe giey for 

 nddy Rivers: neither is th? p.Tie wairy green to 

 I contemned^ which colour you msy make after rlii:-, 

 lanner. H ' Take 



