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These books do not call for any further notice, as 

 their angling contents are mere repetitions of the 

 instructions contained in earlier treatises. 



One does not usually look for striking originality 

 in encyclopaedic works, and one certainly does not 

 find this characteristic in that otherwise excellent 

 encyclopaedia of sport, The Gentleman's Recreation, 

 by Richard Blome, 1686. The only new method 

 described in the angling portion is the following 

 elaborate and ingenious method of carp-fishing : 



But all this while you are detained from the chief 

 Secrets, which in Truth should not be made common. 

 You must be first assured that the place where you 

 Fish for Carps is provided therewith, which to know 

 make use of these following Directions, not that they 

 tend barely to make the Discovery and no more ; for 

 you must find other necessary uses made of them, 

 for Instance, you Bait your Fish thereby, and make 

 them bold; you also obtain a safe and sure place 

 for your Hook to rest on, which is a good 

 Convenience : and you are also assured that there 

 are Carps in the place : the Figure shews the Form. 







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Frame some Bords together of such Length and 

 Breadth ; as you think fit, but for want of other Con- 



