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understand that now orders can be obtained 

 gratuitously. The Grand Surrey Canal did 

 i extend a good many miles along the country, 

 but it has been done away in great part for 

 the railway, and is now in detached pieces, 

 but still those pieces contain a good number 

 of fish, jack in particular. At Croydon, near 

 the Dartmouth Arms, there is a piece of 

 considerable length, containing a good number 

 of jack, which is free for angling. The An- 

 nerley Gardens, in the same locality, have a 

 fine piece of water in them, which contains 

 a vast number of tench, roach, perch, and jack, 

 -. tench in particular, which run a very good 

 size, and will feed very freely in the first of 

 the season, before they have spawned. The 

 water is free for anglers who take refreshments 

 at the house, where they can have the best of 

 accommodation. In this water the tench take 

 gentles more freely than any other bait. 



Let us now, making our circle round London, 

 go to Hyde Park, where is the Serpentine 

 River, which abounds with fish, bream in 

 particular, and in the summer will afford the 

 angler abundance of sport, if he get into a 

 quiet place and fish it properly, using either 

 gentles or paste for bait. Then there is the 



