INDEX. 323 



birth writing for a subsistence, 

 231 ; his pecuniary distress, 232; 

 estimate of his character, 234 : 

 Wordsworth's opinion of his poe- 

 try, 235, note s his letter to Wal- 

 ton, 237. 



Cow-dung-fly, 279. 



Cow-lady-fly, 279. 



Crusians, a kind of fish like Carp, 

 198, note. 



Cuttle-fish, its mode of catching 

 prey, 59. 



Dace, how to fish for, 185; same 

 baits as Roach, 186, 189, note; 

 haunts of, ib. note ; when in sea- 

 son, ib. 



Daping, dabbing, or dibbing, 259. 



Dark' brown fly, 273 ; little, 277. 



Davy, Sir Humphry, his vindica- 

 tion of fishing, 66, note. 



Dead-bait for Pike, 138. 



December, artificial flies for, 287. 



Derbyshire, famous for Trout, 243 ; 

 account of the principal rivers 

 in, 247. 



Dew-worm, 95. 



Diogenes, a saying of, 211. 



Dock-worm, 96. 



Dogs, excellent qualities of, 49. 



Donne, Dr John, Walton writes his 

 life, 4 ; lines by Walton, under an 

 engraving of, 21 ; his lines on 

 fishing, 159. 



Dove Dale, scenery of, 247, note. 



Dove, river, course of the, 247 ; 

 famous for Trout and Grayling, 

 249, 268. 



Drake-fly, dark, when used, 105 ; 

 green, 279. 



Drayton, Michael, lines of, 126. 



Du Bartas, lines of, 58, 60, 102. 



Dubbing to form the body of flies, 

 materials for, 108, note, 265. 



Dubravius, Janus, 134. 



Ducks destroy the spawn and young 

 fry in fish ponds, 203. 



Dun-fly, the great, 105, 273; the 

 blue, ib. ; the little, 278. 



Dun cut-fly, 279. 



Dun-grasshopper, 285. 



Earth, commendation of the, 48. 



Eel, the large one caught at Peter- 

 borough, 165. 



Eels, observations on, 160; breeding 

 of, 162, note, 166, note; winter 

 in the sea, 162, note; column of 

 young observed running up the 

 Clyde, ib. ; several kinds of, 163 ; 

 how to fish for, ib. ; destructive ; 

 to young ducks, 164, note ; how 

 to dress, 165; haunts of, and 

 baits for, 165, note; accounted 

 dangerous food, 165. 



Emanuel College, Cambridge, a 

 Carp of a great age at, 145. note. 



Ephemeron, authors treating of the, 

 219. 



Espernon, Duke d', Cotton writes 

 the life of, 227. 



Falcon, bold flight of the, 45. 



Feathers principally used in fly- 

 making, 108. 



February, artificial flies for, 272. 



Fence months, what, 71 



Fern-bud fly, 312. 



Fern-fly, 286. 



Fields near Leominster, peculiarity 

 of, 121. 



Fish, their sight, 53, note ; statutes 

 against the destruction of, 71 ; 

 hearing of, 119; furnished with 

 parts of generation, 161, note ; 

 property allowed by law in river, 



Fish, a strange, dissected by Dr 

 Wharton, 202. 



Fishes, time of breeding various, 33; 

 how they dispose of their eggs, 61. 



Fish-hooks, by whom mentioned in 

 the Old Testament, 63. 



Fishing with the dead rod, 113. 



Fishing at the top, 265 ; continued, 

 270. 



Fishing, unlawful ways of, 288. 



Fishing-house, description of Cot- 

 ton's, 256. 



Fish ponds, how to make and 

 manage, 203, 205, note. 



Flesh-fly, 285. 



Fletcher, Phineas, author of Pisca- 

 tory Eclogues, extracts from, 180. 



Flies, the kind used for Trout- 

 fishing, 99 ; best natural, for 

 fishing with, 259; to ascertain 



