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you can wield it, and light, so as you can 

 handle it with ease with one hand. There are 

 not now, as formerly, any great favourites in 

 the fraternity of rodmakers, such as Chevalier, 

 of Bell Yard, Fleet Street, who has been dead 

 many a day. Eaton and Bernard are equally 

 good, and such of the fishing-rod makers in 

 Edinburgh as can keep good seasoned wood for 

 the materials. They have rods at all prices, 

 according as they are mounted and finished, 

 from 15s. to 35s. I prefer one in two pieces, 

 and spliced ; or in three pieces, the part next 

 the but-end only in a ferrule, the top of cane, 

 tied together with pretty fine twine well waxed. 

 I have seen some rods made from bamboo cane 

 by De Masser, a Frenchman ; but they are 

 wretched tools. 



LINE. Thirty yards of this, either in hair, 

 or silk and hair, or any other kind thin and 

 solid, as it casts better if a little wind, on a 

 good sized reel or winch pretty large in the 

 round; or you may wind on any old line or 

 fine cord, and, when nearly full on, the reel 

 will more quickly wind up and run out. Let 

 it taper as fine as you can get it, so as to join 

 in well with your cast-line ( small by degrees, 



