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flaw or roughness. When worn or disordered, a 

 little India rubber will renovate it ; when you 

 make knots, do not cut the end too close. Gut, 

 to keep well, should be moistened with fine oil, 

 and kept in oil paper. 



Hot Wells, Reikiavik, Iceland. Of the trouts 

 it has been observed, that when they come up the 

 rivers and brooks, and approach the hot springs, 

 they are fond of staying in the lukewarm water, 

 where they grow so fat as to be scarcely eatable. 

 Eels die when they approach the heated streams. 



Barrow's Iceland. 



Horses fed on Fish. The horses, in Iceland, 

 are fed in winter with fishes* heads and bones,, 

 chopped up with a little hay, and boiled altogether 

 in water. Barrow's Iceland. 



Hampshire. A very few years since, sea fish 

 were so plentiful in this county, that oysters sold 

 for three halfpence a hundred, prawns sixpence, 

 mackerel fourpence per dozen, and whiting two- 

 pence. 



Hooks. The hook used in Scotland by Mr. 

 Stoddart, and which he prefers, is Kendal circular 

 bend. It is of much lighter make than the Lime- 

 rick, and its shape in the smaller sizes more suit- 

 able for hooking trout. The Limerick hooks are 



