118 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



were given me, by an excellent angler, and a very friend, in 

 writing : he told me the latter was too good to be told, but 

 in a learned language, lest it should be made common. 



" Take the stinking oil drawn out of the polybody of the 

 oak by a retort, mixed with turpentine and hive-honey, and 

 anoint your bait therewith, and it will doubtless draw the 

 fish to it." 



The other is this : " Vulnera, hederce grandisswice inflicta 

 sudant balsamuin oleo gelato, albicantique persimile, odoris 

 vero longe suavissimi." 



It is supremely sweet to any fish, and yet assafcetida may 

 do the like. 



But in these things I have no great faith, yet grant it 

 probable, and have had from some chemical men, namely, 

 from Sir George Hastings and others, an affirmation of them 

 to be very advantageous ; but no more of these, especially 

 not in this place. 



THE SALMON FLY. 



I might here, before I take my leave of the salmon, tell 

 you, that there is more than one sort of them ; as, namely, a 

 tecon, and another called in some places a samlet, or by some 

 a skegger : but these and others, which I forbear to name, 

 may be fish of another kind, and differ as we know a herring 

 and a pilchard do, which, I think, are as different as the 

 rivers in which they breed, and must by me be left to the 



