INDEX. 



Action, its connection with man's 

 happiness, 66. 



Adonis, river, 68. 



JElian, C., account of, 75. 



Air, eulogium on, 49. 



Albertus Magnus, 109, 240 ; account 

 of, 109. 



Alchemists, the practices of, 360-1. 



Aldrovandus, U., 140, 173, 174, 230, 

 244 ; account of and portrait, 140. 



Alstonefield, 374. 



Ambrose, St., his admiration of the 

 Grayling, 174. 



Amerley trout, superiority of, 108, 

 206. 



Amos, Illustration from 65, SO. 



Amwell-hill, 46, 88, 465 ; view of, 

 88. 



Angel, a coin ; value of, 317. 



Anglers, character of, and exception 

 in Tomaso Aniello, 116 ; eminent 

 modern, 269 ; ditto ancient, 80 ; 

 qualities of, 64 ; the Angler's Wish, 

 86, 159 ; ditto song, 127, 262, 

 266 ; their peculiar enjoyment of 

 nature, 7, 138. 



Angling, earliest English work on, 6 ; 

 defence of, 48 ; praise of, 64-6 ; 

 antiquity of, 65 ; allowed to eccle- 

 siastics, 81 ; remarks on, 82, 83 ; 

 with an artificial fly, (See under 

 Flies); with a natural fly, 153, 384 ; 

 at the bottom, 382, 437 ; in the 

 middle, 382, 444; with cadis, 286, 

 440, 441 ; withaminnow, 135 ; with 

 a running-line, 134, 437 ; with a 

 ledger-bait, 196 ; with a float, 

 439 ; by hand, 437. 



Ant-fly, 102, 275, 277 ; directions 

 for making, 424, 426 ; black ditto, 

 426 ; large red, 426. 



Antony and Cleopatra, amuse them- 

 selves with angling, 81. 



Ants-eggs, a bait for Roach, 280. 



Apostles, four of them fishermen, 

 79 ; comparison of their language, 

 80. 



April, artificial flies for, 145, 148, 

 410. 



Aristotle, 68, 73, 78, 209. 



Arm, explanation of the term, 14S. 



Artist, definition of, 387. 



Arun, river, 206. 



Ashbourne ale, 375, 470. 



Ash-fly, Oak-fly, Woodcock-fly, Can- 

 non-fly, and Downhill-fly, the same, 

 153 ; how produced, and where 

 found, 153-4. 



Ashford, in Derbyshire, 370, 473. 



Ash-grub, 440. 



Ashmole, E., his collection of Natural 

 History, 70 ; portrait and account 

 of, 71. 



Assa-fcetida, grateful to the senses of 

 fish, 134, 184. 



Avon, the rivers, 86 ; account of, 464, 

 473. 



August, artificial flies for, 146, 426. 



Augustin, St., life of, referred to, 

 318. 



Aukham, in Lincolnshire, famous for 

 eels, 246. 



Ausonius, D. M., 73, 258 ; account 

 of, 73. 



Awber, the river, 370i 



Awberson, town of, 370. 



