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to punish such offenders, every rascal does it, for aught 

 I see impune. 



To conclude, I cannot now, in honesty, but frankly tell 

 you, that many of these flies I have named, at least so 

 made as we make them here, will peradventure do you no 

 great service in your southern rivers ; 1 and will not conceal 

 from you, but that I have sent flies to several friends in 

 London, that, for aught I could ever hear, never did any 

 great feats with them ; and therefore if you intend to profit 

 by my instructions, you must come to angle with me here 

 in the Peak : and so, if you please, let us walk up to 

 supper ; and to-morrow, if the day be windy, as our days 

 here commonly are, His ten to one but we shall take a 

 good dish of fish for dinner. 



(1) The reader may rest assured, that with some or other of these flies, espe- 

 cially with the palmers or hackles, the great dun, dark brown, early (and 

 late) bright brown, the black-gnat, yellow-dun, great whirling-dun, dun-cut, 

 green and grey-drake, camlet-fly, cow-diingfty, little ant-fly, badger-fly, and 

 fern fly, he shall catch Trout, Grayling, Chub, aud Dace, io any water in 

 England or Wales ; always remembering that in a strange water lie first tries the 

 plain, gold, silver, aud peacock hackle. Of the truth of this he need not doubt, 

 when he is told, tint, in the year 1764. a gentleman who went into Wales, to fish 

 with tlif flies last above mentioned, made as above i* directed, did, in about six 

 weeks lime, kill near a thousand brace of Trout and Grayling, as appeared to 

 him by an account in writing, which he kept of each day's success. In confirma- 

 tion whereof, and as a proof how the rivers in Wales abound with fish, the reader 

 will find in the Appendix, No. V. a like account, kept by another person, of fish, 

 to an astonishing amount, caught by him, in a series of years, in some of the Welch 

 rivets; which account was sent by him to Mr. Bartholomew Lowe, fishing-tackle 

 maker, io Drury-lane, 24th Feb. 1766, and is inserted in his own words. 



