INDEX. 



Adonis, a fish, so called, 60. 



Adopting sons, practiceof, 238, note. 



Agues, to what ascribed, 51. 



Air, praise of the element of, 44. 



Alfred, King, alters the course of 

 the river Lee, 201, note. 



Aldrovandus, his opinion of some 

 kinds of fish, 122. 



Amos, the prophet, an angler, 63. 



Angler, the Complete, character of, 

 5 ; its reception, 12 ; character 

 of the Second Part, 16, 229. 



Angler, qualifications for one, 53 ; 

 equipments of, 190, 191, note; 

 dress of, in the last age, 207, note ; 

 rudely treated sometimes, 300. 



Angler's song, 93; wish, 114. 



Angling, old writers on, 6, note ; 

 how to be taught, 33 ; like poetry, 

 53; antiquity of, 54; commen- 

 dation of, 55 ; alloxved to clergy- 

 men, 64 ; examples of learned 

 men, lovers of, 64 ; lines in praise 

 of, by J. Davors, 67 ; songs on, 

 176/177; practised by ladies, in 

 St James's Park in Charles II. 's 

 reign, 205, note ; ways of angling 

 at the bottom, 291 ; in the 

 middle, 296 ; produce of ten years, 

 316. 



Angling, laws of, discourse on, 299. 



Ant, the, keeps no store for winter^ 

 48, note. 



Ant-fly, blackish, mode of keeping 

 for bait, 186. 



Ant-fly, 285 ; 286. 



Antony and Cleopatra made ang- 

 ling a recreation, 64. 



Antonia, wife of Drusus, favourite 



Lamprey of, 120. 

 April, artificial flies for, 276. 

 Apostles, four of them fishermen, 

 62. 



Aquatic insects having cases, syn- 

 opsis of, 309. 



Aristotle, credit due to, as a natu- 

 ralist, 61, note. 



Artificial Minnow, directions for 

 making, 99. 



Artificial flies, different kinds of, for 

 different seasons, 104, 271 ; direc- 

 tions for making, 107, 265 ; 

 materials for, 108 ; superior to 

 natural ones in windy weather, 

 283. 



Ashborn, Derbyshire, 241. 



Ash-coloured Dun, 276, note. 



Ash-grub, 294. 



Ashmole, Elias, 57. 



Asafoetida has the property of 

 making baits attractive, 129. 



Astonfield church, 252. 



August, artificial flies for, 285. 



Bag, 109. 



Bag-rods, description of, 207, note. 



Bait, several kinds of, 192. 



Baits, the oil of ivy-ben ies, &c. 

 put upon them, said to attract 

 fish, 128, 129; effects of using 

 improper, 129, note ; winter, 167. 



Balaena, Pliny's account of the, 57. 



