ON ANGLING, 



I intended to have concluded these obser- 

 vations with a short treatise on artificial fly 

 fishing, and a list of flies proper for the Trent, 

 and though I despaired of adding any thing 

 to the improvements made in this entertain- 

 ing part of angling, yet I flattered myself I 

 should be able (by consulting some of the , 

 best natural historians) to have given the flies 

 their proper names, arranged them under 

 their respective clafses, and to have obviated 

 many doubts which must arise in the mind of 

 every reader, on a perusal of all the authors^ 

 who have written on the subject, owing to 

 the diversity of names given to the flies, 

 which are (with very few exceptions) arbi- 

 trary and provincial ; most of the flies in 

 Walton, Bowlker, and even Taylor's j- 

 entific treatise, are called after the animal or 

 bird, whose fur or feathers contribute most 

 to the formation of the fly, as the dun fox* 

 the light fox, the hare's far, the wren's tail. 

 t\\z grouse hackle, the brown rail, and the 

 woodcock Jly ; several are distinguished only 

 by colour, as the dark claret, the golden 



