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m hand, laying aside the rod, which \vlll always bp 

 found to suffer more or less, in such hazardous, and in- 

 deed, such absurd contests. 



Where there is a bend in a stream, it will generally be 

 found, that the water is deepest on the outside of the 

 bend, and that the inner part of the bend, that is, the 

 point round which the water runs, is shallow ; (see the 1st 

 Figure, 4th Plate). Where a stream lies between straight 

 banks, although its depth will vary occasionally, and the 

 current pass and repass from one side to the other, yet, 

 generally speaking, the middle of the stream will be the 

 deepest water, and be most noticed by bargemen, &c. 



Old bridges, ledges of rock, heavy masses of roots, 

 large irregular stones, sunken vessels, and all such ob- 

 vious matters, by affording shelter and protection, be- 

 come the resort of almost every kind of fishes. ] f there 

 should be alternate deeps and shallows, with occasional 

 falls, breaks, and eddies, the angler may expect to find 

 fronts, and various kinds of white fishes -, while the more 

 deep and still waters will chiefly present him \v\\l\jacks, 

 perch, and eels. If the water has communication, how- 

 ever indirectly, with the sea, he may be assured that 

 salmon may at die proper season be found, in some of, if 

 not in all, its varieties. Nor will such generally be ex- 

 empt from the visits of barbels. 



But almost every water in the kingdom has, in some 

 part of its course, whether under one or other name, 

 such various depths, breadths, and velocities, as to occasion 

 it to contain in some places one kind, and in other parts 

 different classes of fish. 



Besides though some sorts are, in a certain measure, 

 more appropriate to particular waters, they will never- 

 theless 



