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Carps fed up from to 14 or 15 inches, besides Pike, 

 Pearch, and Tench and other Fry, useful on many 

 accounts, if the Water suits them. The Carps are 

 saleable and will bring perhaps I2d., but in all likeli- 

 hood not less than gd., yet let it be 6d. apiece, there 

 is 25, which is 6, 5s. per Acre, a little Charge of 

 Carriage perhaps to be deducted. This is Improve- 

 ment enough. 



A few years later was published The Whole Art 

 of Fishing. Being a Collection and Improvement 

 of all that has been written upon this Subject, with 

 many new Experiments, 1714; but I have been un- 

 able to find in this book any of the new experiments 

 mentioned. 



In the preface the writer admits that it is a collec- 

 tion from earlier works : 



This treatise is a collection of all that has been 

 writ upon the Subject of Fishing digested in a better 

 method than any before extant, and cleansed from 

 all superfluous and useless observations, for very few 

 writers on this head have forbore some favourite 

 Impertinence of their own which they generally stile 

 Curious. 



Next may be considered The Compleat Sportsman, 

 by Giles Jacob, published in 1718. In this manual of 

 sport, angling is regarded as of secondary importance 

 to the other sports, and is only introduced on the 

 ground that "the Sportsman cannot be compleat 

 without a tollerable Knowledge of Angling." 



After such an introduction, the reader is not disap- 

 pointed at finding very little original matter in the 



