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the ordinary 'check,' might be in some respects improved upon 

 in matter of finish ; the rim also should be thickened so as to 

 prevent its being indented on meeting with falls or rough usage. 

 A two and a quarter inch reel of this pattern, including thirty 

 to forty yards of the very finest dressed silk line [not thicker 

 than thread] is six ounces. The reel would hold probably twice 

 as much. It is better suited for light than for heavy work, or, 

 in other words, for trout or float fishing, than for salmon or 

 pike fishing. 



FIG. 3. WATSON S REEL. 



Last, ' but not least,' we have Mr. Farlow's ' patent lever,' 

 which up to the present time has only been applied to salmon 

 and trolling reels. Diagrams of the reel and the internal 

 arrangement of the patent mechanism, reduced to one-half the 

 actual size, are annexed. 



The object of the patent is, by an adjustable screw, marked 

 A in the engraving, to enable the strength of the ' check ' to be 

 regulated exactly as the fisherman may wish, or at pleasure 

 removed altogether. This desideratum, the practical con- 



