86 OBSERVATIONS 



and use, requisite for an angler, can require 

 a recommendation, I beg leave to mention 

 Mr. John Higginbotham, No. 91, Strand, 

 London, whose chearfulnefs, punctually, 

 and attention to businefs, will gain him more 

 customers than any panegyric I can pofsibly 

 compose. 



As accidents, however, will unavoidably 

 happen, and no skilful artist may be near to 

 repair them, I shall give a few hints, which 

 may not be altogether uselefs : Various kinds 

 of wood are used in making angle rods: 

 deal and sallow for the but ends ; hiccory, 

 ash, and hazle, for the middle parts ; and 

 bamboo cane, cabbage tree, brier, and elder, 

 for the tops ; these for the tops are cut in 

 joints or lengths, of eight or ten inches, 

 spliced and glued together ; after which they 

 are property tapered, with double tbolea 

 planes, and fine rasps, finished off with sand 

 paper, and the joints wrapped with silk well 

 waxed ; a small piece of whale bone is added 

 to the top, spliced and wrapped in the same 



