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But in these things I have no great faith ; yet grant it 

 probable ; and have had from some chymical men, namely, 

 from Sir George Hastings and others, an affirmation of them, 

 to be very advantageous. But no more of these, especially 

 not in this place. 1 



I might, here, before I take my leave of the salmon, tell 

 you, that there is more than one sort of them ; as namely, a 

 Tecon, and another called in some places a Samlet, or by some 

 a Skegger.- But these, and others which I forbear to name, 

 may be fish of another kind, and differ, as we know, a Herring 

 and a Pilchard do ; :{ which, I think, are as different as the 



assafcetida, three drachms ; camphor, one drachm ; Venice turpentine, 

 one drachm. Beat altogether with some drops of oil of lavender and oil of 

 camomile. Anoint eight inches of your line above the hook with it ; and 

 for a trout in a muddy stream, and a gudgeon in clear water, it has the 

 preference over any other unguent whatever.' 1 In a book intitled, the 

 "Secrets of Angling," by J. Denny; at the end, is the following mystical 

 recipe of " K. R.'" who possibly may be the "11. lloe" mentioned in "Walton's 

 preface : 



To bliss thy bait, and make the fish to bite, 

 Lo ! here's a means, if thou canst hit it right : 

 Take gum of life, well beat and laid to soak 

 In oil well drawn from that which kills the oak. 

 Fish where thou wilt, thou shalt have sport thy fill ; 

 When others fail, thou shalt be sure to kill. H. 



1 No honest angler will ever resort to a nefarious way of taking fish. 

 The. following extract of a letter which appeared in one of the London 

 papers, 21st June, 1788, should operate as a general caution against using, 

 in the composition of baits, any ingredient prejudicial to the human con- 

 stitution (Nux vomica, &c.). "Newcastle, June 16. Last week, in 

 Lancashire, two young men, having caught a large quantity of trout by 

 mixing the water in a small brook with lime, ate heartily of the troiit at 

 dinner the next day : they were seized, at midnight, with violent pains in 

 the intestines ; and though medical assistance was immediately procured, 

 they expired, before noon, in the greatest agonies." SIR H. NICOLAS. 



2 Called also a brandling, They live in the swiftest streams, and never 

 grow beyond six or eight inches. The bait for these is the ant-fly or red 

 worm, as for gudgeon. BROWNE. They are also called fingerling, skerling, 

 gravelling, laspring, sparling, and parr, all which names it would be 

 desirable to discontinue excepting par and samlet. YARRELL. 



3 There is a fish, in many rivers, of the salmon kind ; which, though 

 very small, is thought by some curious persons to be of the same species ; 

 and this, I take it, is the fish known by the different names of salmon-pink, 

 shedders, skeggers, last-springs, and gravel last-springs. But there is 

 another small fish very much resembling these in shape and colour, called 



