INDEX. 



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Perch, habits of, 90 ; in what 

 countries to be found, 91 ; 

 tenacious of life, 91 ; ways 

 of catching and baits, 91 ; 

 angling anecdotes, 92 ; va- 

 riety of, 93 ; crooked, 94 ; 

 large, atDagenham Breach, 

 90, 94 ; swallowed by a girl, 

 95; jumping into a barge, 

 95 ; taken with a stickleback 

 in his mouth, 95 ; very 

 large in the New South 

 Wales' Rivers, 95 

 Pike, or Jack, its habits and 

 mode of capture, 72; curi- 

 ous trimmers for, 72 ; growth 

 of, 73; great age of, 73; 

 shooting, 73; hunting and 

 shooting of, 74 ; large in the 

 Coquet river, 75 ; caught 

 with a snood, 76 ; weighing 

 ninety six pounds, 76 ; many 

 of a large size taken, 76, 79 ; 

 a brace caught by the same 

 hook and line, 77 ; Fishing 

 extraordinary of, 78 ; rapa- 

 city of, 79 ; seizing a boy's 

 hand, 88 ; a girl's hand, 81 ; 

 seizing a calf, 81 ; destroy- 

 ing four young swans, 80 ; 

 of one hundred and seventy 

 pounds, 82 ; several large 

 ones caught, 82, 83; carried 

 away a punt, 83 ; taken by 

 Fly-Fishing, 84 ; stones 

 found in the stomach of, 

 85 ; blind, 85 ; in Irelanc 

 very large, 86 ; angling foi 

 with the pooka, 86; Ganders 

 Fishing for, 87-88 ; ducks 

 88 ; eagle, 88 ; dog, 88, 234 

 fox, 234; and carp, 235 

 destroyed by tadpoles, 235 

 Piscatorial celebration, 236 

 Polynesia, ingenious methoc 

 of Fishing in, 193 



'orto Pray a, Fishing at, 195 

 'ratrosso, Fishing peculiar to, 



192 



'renadilla, 156 

 'reparation for Fly-Fishing, 



217 



^reservation of Fish, 14 ; du- 

 ring carriage, 16 

 Price of Fish at Billingsgate, 



in 1804, 241 ; in the reign 



of Edward I., 242 

 Princes Island, method of 



catching Fish at, 194 

 Protection of the ocean tribe, 



237 



Rat caught by line and hook, 

 237 



Retreat of the natives of the 

 ocean, 237 



River Cod, 210 



Roach, habits of, and method 

 of capture, 119 ; caught in 

 Hampton deep, 120 ; near 

 Withyam, 120; ancient way 

 of catching, 120 ; best me- 

 thod to cook, 122 



Rudd, habits of, and baits to 

 catch, 109 ; onecaughtwith 

 a minnow, 110 



Ruff or Pope, its habits, 96 



Sailing Fish, 156 



Salamis Fishing, 195 



Salmon, habits of, 28 ; leaps, 

 28; fisheries, 28 ; in Scotland, 

 28 ; angling for, 30 ; spear 

 fishing, 31 ; hunting, 31 ; in 

 Herefordshire, 32; in the 

 Severn, 32 ; large found in a 

 brook, 33 ; in Gal way , 33 ; in 

 Kamtschatka, 33 ; when in 

 season, 33 ; Fishery in New 

 Caledonia, 34; growth of, 35, 

 37 ; weight of, 36 ; eggs grow- 

 ing in a dunghill, 37, 38 ; 



