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in others reasonably loose. In " striking " I gave up holding the line 

 altogether. After a little practice in adjusting the strength of the break 

 to suit particular waters I lost so few fish, and found the flesh so little 

 torn, if torn at all, that now I adopt no other plan. Convincing myself 

 at the time that the general principle was the right one, I commenced to 

 design a winch with an adjustable check constructed so that the power of 

 resistance in striking, as well as in the line running, could be graduated at 

 will. 



Having given up my country residence and come to reside in 

 London, workshop experiment being doomed, I put myself in communi- 

 cation with the firm spoken of above. A lengthy correspondence took 

 place, relating principally to details in the construction of the lever, with 

 the result that a Winch was patented, and to this day is sold at 191, 

 Strand, under the name of THE PATENT LEVER WINCH. The neat and 

 skilful way in which the work has been executed at this establishment is 

 in every way a source of satisfaction to me, and a transport of delight to 

 all my friends. 



THE WINCH (Fig. 1). 



This winch, the special object of which is sufficiently indicated by its 

 title, has sometime since entered upon the first decade of its existence, 

 and one is able to point to highly interesting results attained with it by 

 good, bad and indifferent Fishermen. As soon as it became widely 



