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the most excellent of all rods. I obtained 

 about ten sticks of the proper cane, and Wil- 

 liams induced Clark to make one for me, and 

 another for my friend, Mr. L." 



Mr. Sheringham adds that in the Field of 

 March 26, 1904, E. T. Sachs " speaks with 

 certainty of one Ustonson of Bell-yard as a 

 maker of such rods (built up), though not of 

 cane, and there was another maker living in a 

 West of England town. Ten years or so since 

 I was shown a built-up rod by the late Mr. 

 Chevalier, formerly in Bell-yard, which had 

 been made some sixty years previously. 



" When the first six-strip rod was made I 

 do not know," Mr. Sheringham concludes, 

 " but I am informed by an old established 

 tackle maker that Eaton & Deller of London, 

 E. C., were the beginners on this side, and 

 that they got the idea from your side." 



While Mr. Sheringham thinks that Eaton & 

 Deller were the first to copy the American 

 hexagonal rods, R. B. Marston thinks differ- 

 ently. In a personal letter to me he said: 



" In the yo's, I believe, J. D. Dougall, a 

 gunmaker of Glasgow, was the first to import 

 these rods [hexagonal], and then Bowness of 

 London. The hexagonal American split canes 

 were a novelty and very expensive; but our 



