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first appearance above water happen to be in the 

 middle, he then lies upon the surface of the water 

 like a Ship at Hull (for his feet are totally useless to 

 him there, and he cannot creep upon the water as the 

 Stone-Flie can) untill his wings have got stiffness to fly 

 with, if by some Trout, or Grayling he be not taken in 

 the interim (which is ten to one he is) and then his 

 wings stand high, and clos'd exact upon his back, 

 like the Butterfly, and his motion in flying is the 

 same. His body is in some of a paler, in others of a 

 darker yellow (for they are not all exactly of a colour) 

 rib'd with rows of green, long, slender, and growing 

 sharp towards the tail, at the end of which he has 

 three long small whisks of a very dark colour, almost 

 black, and his tail turns up towards his back like a 

 Mallard, from whence questionless he has his name 

 of the green- Drake. . . . 



I should now come next to the Stone-Flie, but there 

 is another Gentleman in my way : that must of 

 necessity come in between, and that is the Grey-Drake, 

 which in all shapes, and dimensions is perfectly the 

 same with the other, but quite almost of another 

 colour, being of a paler, and more livid yellow, and 

 green, and ribb'd with black quite down his body, 

 with black shining wings, and so diaphanous and 

 tender, cob-weblike, that they are of no manner of 

 use for Daping ; but come in, and are taken after the 

 Green-Drake, and in an Artificial Flie kill very well. 



Apart from his instructions in fly-fishing, Cotton 

 would be worthy of a high place among the teachers 

 of angling, for his description of that skilful form of 

 fishing known as " up-stream worming," or " swim- 

 ming the worm " : 



The third way of Angling by hand with a 

 Ground-bait, and by much the best of all other, is, 



