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patient scholar will be induced to favor the learned 

 world with a folio on the subject. The following cut, 

 which may serve as a brick towards such a Babel, 

 of an ancient swivel hook, now in the British 

 Museum, is here given as confirmatory of the Rev. 

 Mr. Todburn's statement, at page 39 : u they were 

 not ignorant of the contrivance of the swivel hook 

 to facilitate the motion of the spinning bait." 



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It is believed that the earliest, and indeed the 

 only notice of fly-fishing to be found in ancient 

 writers, is the passage in Aelian, referred to at 

 page 38 ; and that the earliest printed treatise on 

 the subject, in any language, is that which is con- 

 tained in the work printed in 1496 by Wynkyn de 

 Worde, and known by the name of the Book of St. 

 Alban's, from its having been first printed at the 

 monastery there in 1486. Its composition has been 

 generally, though it appears erroneously, ascribed 

 to Dame Juliana Berners, prioress of Sopewell 

 Nunnery, in Hertfordshire. The book is a small 

 folio, of seventy-three leaves, ornamented with 

 rude wood-cuts, and contains the following treatises : 

 A Book of Hawking ; A Book of Hunting ; Pro- 

 perties of a good Horse ; Prudential Advice, in 

 rhyme ; The Companies of Beasts and Fowls ; A 

 List of Shires and Bishopricks. New Terms of 

 Carving ; with two pieces, " A faithful frende wolde 



