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in the matter of lines and hooks, floats, 

 hammer, vice, etc., are about as valuable as 

 the more finished modern engravings of 

 similar instructions in modern books ; and 

 the method set forth for making " rodde 

 and lyne " remind me of the description 

 of the construction of a birch-bark bucket, 

 in an article which appeared long ago in 

 the " Knickerbocker Magazine." " It is 

 somehow thus. You take a large square 

 sheet of birch-bark and some wooden- 

 pins; you turn up one end of the bark and 

 stick in a pin ; you then turn up the side 

 and fasten it to the end ; you double the 

 ends together and fasten them with these 

 pins ; turn it up all round, so the water 

 won't run out, fasten it, and there's your 

 bucket ; it is a very simple contrivance." 

 The aforesaid description of how to 

 make a rod seems to me to afford internal 



