BEST'S ART OF ANGLING. 



You must have on your rod a winch, and a line 

 on it about thirty yards long. 



The most famous places near London for bar- 

 bel-angling are Kingston-bridge and Shepperton- 

 deeps ; but Walton-deeps, Chertsey-bridge, 

 Hampton-ferry, and the holes under Cooper's 

 hill, are in no wise inferior. You may likewise 

 meet with them at all the locks between Maiden- 

 head and Oxford. 



N. B. Their spawn acts as a violent cathartic 

 and emetic. His liver is likewise unwholesome, 

 The hooks for this fish, No. 1 or 2. 



THE EEL. 



Authors of natural history, in regard to the eel, 

 have advanced various conjectures; and in some 

 measure have contradicted each other entirely on 

 this head ; namely, whether they are produced by 

 generation or corruption, as worms are, or by cer- 

 tain glutinous drops of dew, which falling in May 

 and June, on the banks of some ponds or rivers, are 

 by the heat of the sun turned into eels. Abr. My- 

 ,lius, in a treatise on the origin of animals, describes 

 =a method of producing them by art. He says that 

 if he cut up two turfs covered with May-dew, 

 and lay one on the other, the grassy side inwards, 

 , and thus expose them to the heat of the sun, in a 

 few hours there will spring from them an infinite 

 quantity of eels. Eels are distinguished into four 

 kinds, viz. the silver eel ; a greenish eel, called a 

 grey ; a blackish eel, with a broad fiat head ; and 

 lastly, an eel with reddish fins. The eel's haunts 

 are chiefly amongst weeds, under roots and stumps 

 of trees, holes, and clefts in the earth, both in the 

 banks and at bottom, and in the plain mud ; where 



