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to one another, but about a quarter of a Circle 

 from each other, and on them they make their 

 Flie, that if one Hook break hold, the other may not 

 fail. 



Following closely upon the Experienced Angler 

 appeared " The Gentleman's Recreation : in Four Parts, 

 viz. : Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing, Collected 

 from Antient and Modern Authors Forrein and 

 Domestick, &c. 1674." To the second edition of 

 this work, published in 1677, a folding plate is added, 

 in which are very roughly delineated fourteen kinds 

 of fish. 



Judging from the introduction, the author of this 

 work, Nicholas Cox, appears to have been of a some- 

 what credulous disposition ; among other impossible 

 stories he relates the following : 



In the year of our Lord 1180, near Orford in 

 Suffolk, there was a fish taken in the perfect shape 

 of a man ; he was kept by Bartholomew de Glanville 

 in the Castle of Orford above half a year; but at 

 length not being carefully looked to, he stole to the 

 sea and was never seen after. He never spake, but 

 would eat any meat that was given him, especially 

 raw fish, when he had squeezed out the juice: He 

 was had to church, but never shewed any signe of 

 Adoration. 



The angling instructions appear to have been 

 taken chiefly from Venables' Experienced Angler ; 

 the description of the shape of the hook and the 

 instructions for plumbing the depth of the water are 

 taken practically verbatim from this source. 



