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There is another sort of fly that proceeds m 

 from the water, about the size of the flies on 

 this plate, the body of which is of the colour 

 of the blue feathers on the peacock's neck 

 exactly, its legs are a dark brown colour, almost 

 black, hanging long, and few of them ; the 

 wings, which stand upright on its back, or I 

 may say, its head and shoulders, for the head 

 and wings at the roots, and legs spring all out 

 of the one lump which is very thick here in 

 comparison to its beautiful slender body of 

 many joints ; the wings, I say, are a bronze 

 brown with a moon in all the four like the 

 peacock's tail feather, which in the artificial fly 

 would be just the colour mixed with a little 

 drake feather ; there are some of tliem all 

 brown, and some with bright green bodies, and 

 blue green as above ; all these beautiful insects 

 must afi'ord food for the fish. This of course 

 accounts for the artificial representation in use, 

 and it cannot be denied that they take them 

 for natural ones, which the fly-fisher, according 

 to fancy, forms most fantastically, varying on 

 most of the rivers. 



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