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cured for me by an old brother angler from Mac- 

 clesfield, who is now, alas ! no more, and I have 

 been obliged to seek for them elsewhere. I can 

 now recommend those sold by Mr. Barth of Cock- 

 spur-street, who is a good, as well as a civil and 

 obliging tradesman, and who also makes up the 

 sets of trolling hooks, which I am now about to 

 describe, or rather to give a sketch of, as it is some- 

 what difficult to convey a proper idea of them 

 without it. The hooks are fastened on gimp, having 

 a loop at the end for the purpose of fastening it to 

 the swivel of one end of a trace, thus, 



The upper hook is put through the lips of the bait ; 

 the second and third hooks should be fixed on the 

 side of the back the fourth hook is placed a con- 

 trary way, for the purpose of giving a bend to the 

 tail of the bait which makes it spin and one of 

 the last hooks is to be fixed near the fork of the 

 tail of the bait, which will then appear as seen in 

 the accompanying sketch. 



