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the refemblance which fubfifts between his artifi- 

 cial fly and the natural infect." And again he 

 fays, cc that in nine cafes out of ten a fifti feizes 

 upon an artificial fly as upon an infect or moving 

 creature c Jut generis J and not on account of its 

 exact and fuccefsful refemblance to any accuftomed 

 or familiar object." 



Thefe aflertions are made, I believe, chiefly on 

 the ground of the utter want of refemblance of 

 artificial Salmon-flies to any " creature that lives, 

 and moves, and has its being." 



Now, gentle reader, with your permiflion, I 

 will leave Salmon-flies out of the queftion, as I am 

 expreffly engaged in writing on the fubject of flies 

 I wifh to recommend you to make, and ufe to the 

 coft of the unhappy trout. 



That palmers may be ufed on ordinary occa- 

 fions throughout the feafon, I do not deny ; but 

 even thefe general favourites are neglected by the 

 finny tribe, when flies of fome large clafs begin to 

 fwarm upon the water. The truth of this I have 

 experienced myfelf over and over again. 



The large " dark blue" for inftance, the firft fly 

 that can be called a killer how often have I taken 

 trout after trout with an artificial one I felected 

 from my book which appeared to me the moil 



