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But this may be faid to the advantage 

 of hook -fi fliing^ that they take almoft all 

 kinds of fim, as foles, plaice, dabs, brets, 

 flounders, turbots, rays, &c. and almoft 

 all kinds of round-fim, fuch as whitings, 

 mackarels, mullets, cods, and fometimes 

 fturgeons, porpoifes^ &c. 



OF LINES, 



For common fiming with the rod, fine' 

 lines are made with horfe-hair, or filk ; 

 but for fea-fiming, when large fifh are to 

 be caught, that might cut the lines with 

 their teeth, the end of the lines next the 

 hook are made of horfe-hair, or of brafs- 

 wire, fometimes fingle, fometimes double, 

 or elfe rolled in the form of a fmall cord ; 

 fometimes alfo, they are made with a kind 

 of a fmall chain. Lines made of hemp 

 mould be tanned, not only to make them 

 laft the longer, but alfo that the fi(h, de- 

 ceived 



