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waterproof, it has all the general advantages of the 

 cushion, with, it is presumed, some little comforts 

 in addition : to be warm as well as dry, in the 

 part most exposed to cold and damp, is a great 

 desideratum with the angler who wishes to enjoy 



" pleasure and ease 

 Together mixed, sweet recreation." 



The proposed improvement has also the advan- 

 tage over the cushion in these points, it is always 

 ready for use, and is much less liable to be lost. It 

 is rather surprising that an invention at once so 

 simple and obvious should have occurred to no 

 bottom-fisher before. It consists merely in seating 

 the inexpressibles of the sedentary angler with 

 caoutchouc, and lining them, according to size, 

 with two, three, or four bosom friends prepared 

 rabbit-skins, so called, which can be obtained at 

 any glover or hosier's shop. 



Though Sir Humphrey Davy, in his " Salmonia," 

 speaks lightly of the angling of " cockney fisher- 

 men, who fish for roach and dace in the Thames," 

 yet we strongly sucpect that in this school he was 

 first initiated into the mysteries of the rod and line, 

 and that his love of fly-fishing for trout and sal- 

 mon was rather a late one. He was President of 

 the Royal Society, and he was ambitious sero sed 

 serio, late though earnestly of ranking among the 

 first of fly-fishers. Vain hope ! No man who drives 

 out to Denham, "in a light carriage and pair of 



horses," to enjoy trout-fishing in a preserved stream ; 



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