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the most excellent of all rods. I obtained 

 about ten sticks of the proper cane, and Wil- 

 liams induced Clark to make one for me, and 

 another for my friend, Mr. L." 



Mr. Sheringham adds that in the Field of 

 March 26, 1904, E. T. Sachs "speaks with 

 certainty of one Ustonson of Bell-yard as a 

 maker of such rods (built up), though not of 

 cane, and there was another maker living in a 

 West of England town. Ten years or so since 

 I was shown a built-up rod by the late Mr. 

 Chevalier, formerly in Bell-yard, which had 

 been made some sixty years previously. 



" When the first six-strip rod was made I 

 do not know," Mr. Sheringham concludes, 

 " but I am informed by an old established 

 tackle maker that Eaton & Deller of London, 

 E. C., were the beginners on this side, and 

 that they got the idea from your side." 



While Mr. Sheringham thinks that Eaton & 

 Deller were the first to copy the American 

 hexagonal rods, R. B. Marston thinks differ- 

 ently. In a personal letter to me he said: 



" In the yo's, I believe, J. D. Dougall, a 

 gunmaker of Glasgow, was the first to import 

 these rods [hexagonal], and then Bowness of 

 London. The hexagonal American split canes 

 were a novelty and very expensive; but our 



