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are remarkable for their truth and fimplic- 

 ity ; and, after comparing the purfuits of 

 Hunting, Hawking and Fowling with that 

 of Angling, the preference is, of courfe, 

 given to the latter. Then follow inftruc- 

 tions for making tackle, rods, baits, etc., 

 and a defcription of the moft fkilful man- 

 ner of. uf ing, together with an account of 

 the various kinds of river fifh, and their 

 refpective merits as food : and the treatife 

 is concluded by fome admirable rules for 

 the governance of the conduct of anglers 

 towards each other, and towards thofe 

 whofe lands they frequent, an obfervance 

 of which, it is emphatically added, would 

 fecure " the bleffynge of God and Saynt 

 Petyre, whych he theym graunte that wyth 

 his precious blood us boughte." 



Thus it is manifeft, that in the moft im- 

 portant features, Walton has clofely fol- 



