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INDEX. 



Mullet, chastity of the, 61 ; changes 

 colours, 78 ; best of sea-fish, 79. 

 Music, lines in praise of, 181. 



Natural fly, of fishing with a, 111, 



259 ; best kind of, 259. 

 New River, the best Eels taken in, 



166, note. 



Night fishing for Trout, 118. 

 Nightingale, its singing described, 



46. 

 North, Hon. Roger, Discourse of 



Fish and Fish-ponds, 206, note. 

 Northumberland Trout, 82. 

 November, artificial flies for, 287. 

 Nowel, Dr, dean of St Paul's, 



particulars concerning, 64. 



Oak- fly, 110, 111: how to make, 



311. 



Oak-worm, 96. 



October, artificial flies for, 286. 

 Offley, J. Esq. dedication to, 31. 

 Oils, put upon baits, 128, 129, 148 ; 



whether useful, 295. 

 Orange-fly, 285. 

 Otter, the, destructive to fish, 42 ; 



observations on, 69. 

 Owl-fly, 284. 



Palmer-fly, account of, 100; how 



to make, 274, 278. 

 Palmer- worm, 101 ; when used for 



fishing, 107. 

 Parrot-Fish, 58. 

 Pastes, for Chub,. 78 ; for Carp, 



147 ; for Bream, 150 ; for Tench, 



156 ; for Roach and Dace, 185. 

 Paternoster line, what, 174, note. 

 Patience, anecdotes of an angler's, 



54, note. 



Peacock-fly, 279, 285. 

 Pearl-colour, or heron dun, 310. 

 Penk, or Minnow, observations on, 



98, 197. 

 Perch, observations on, 156; 



esteemed very wholesome, 157; 



how to fish for, 158; additional 



directions about, 158, note. 

 Peucerus, Gaspar, fabulous story 



told by, 1 18. 



Pigeons used to carry letters, 46. 

 Pike-fishing, ancient mode of, 9. 



Pike -pool, description of, 269. 



Pike, or Luce, observations on, 130 ; 

 longevity of, 131 ; boldness and 

 voracity of, ib. ; bite of, veno- 

 mous, 133; breeding of, ib. ; 

 said to be destroyed by frogs, 

 134; how to fish for, 135; 

 haunts of, and baits for, 138, 

 note ; directions for roasting, 141 . 



Piper cadis, where found, 194, note. 



Piscator's song in praise of fishing, 

 176. 



Pismirefly, 311, 316. 



Plain hackle-fly, 313. 



Poison-fish, 58. 



Pond-fishing, 205, note. 



Pope, or Ruffe, description of the, 

 173. 



Prime dun-fly, 314. 



Prison, lines inscribed on the wall 

 of a, 232. 



Purple-fly, 316. 



Red-brown fly, 271 ; lesser, 272. 



Red hackle-fly, 313. 



Red herl-fly, 314. 



Reliquiae Wottonianae, 5, 215. 



Retirement, the, stanzas addressed 

 to Walton, 239. 



Rivers, wondrous properties of some, 

 56 ; observations on several, 200. 



Rivers in England, principal, des- 

 cribed in a sonnet of Michael 

 Drayton's, 201. 



Roach, description of the, 183; 

 better in rivers than ponds, 184 ; 

 largest caught in the Thames, ib. ; 

 season for catching, ib. note ; how 

 to fish for, 185 ; baits for, 186, 

 189, note; haunts of, ib. note. 



Rod, directions for colouring, 206, 

 210 ; choice of, and how to 

 make, 206, note; best made in 

 Yorkshire, length of, 260. 

 | Roe, Nat. and R. friends of Wal- 

 ton's, 3, 33. 

 ; Rosicrusians, 188. 

 : Royal merchant, comedy of the, 



116. 



1 Ruddy-fly, 105. 

 ; Ruff-coat, a species of cadis, 193. 



Ruffe, or Pope, description of, and 

 how to fish for, 173. 



