CHAPTER X 



AT the end of the first quarter of the eighteenth 

 century appeared The Compleat Fisherman, being A 

 large and particular account of all the several ways 

 of Fishing now practised in Europe : With abundance 

 of curious Secrets and Niceties in the Art of Fishing : 

 as well in the Sea as in Lakes, Meers, Ponds, Rivers, 

 or Brooks : whether by Darts, Spears, Harpoons, 

 Nets, Hook and Line, or any other way whatsoever. 

 More particularly calculated for the Sport of Angling. 

 Collected from the best Authors and from the long 

 experience of James Saunders Esqre of Newton 

 Awbery upon the River Trent. London. Printed 

 and Sold by W. Brown in Black Horse Alley, 

 1724. 



This book is the first to mention the use of silk- 

 worm gut. This very valuable angling material is 

 thus described : 



The Swiss and the Milanese, and the inhabitants 

 of the more mountainous parts of Italy are esteemed 

 the greatest Artists at Trout Fishing, perhaps in the 

 World ; and it is not unlikely it may be occasioned 

 by the many fine Trout Rivers which they have 



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