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for fastening strands of silkworm gut together, or 

 making fast the ends of lines or strings to .each 

 other. 



The "loop" slip is formed by two loops being run into 

 each other, and forms a most convenient and safe mode 

 of attaching traces to main lines and hooks to traces or 

 " booms." 



A little practice on a couple of pieces of stout 

 cord would soon make the reader familiar with the 

 mode of tying all these knots, and when once ac- 

 quired is rarely forgotten. 



Concluding Remarks. 



Amongst the varied, interesting, and immensely 

 valuable stores drawn from the sea's treasury and 

 brought to light by the various modes described in 

 this work, as well as by others which, from their use 

 being almost exclusively confined to the professional 

 fisherman, have not been minutely described, there 

 are fish, mollusks, &c., &c., of kinds so varied, and 

 whose capture is so common to nearly all the general 

 modes laid down, that it would be difficult, if not 

 impossible, to separately deal with them, many, the 

 blue shark and various descriptions of dog-fish, often 

 proving infinitely more free than welcome: the 

 latter mangling the fish in the nets, entangling the 



mouth for a short time, to soften it before being tied together, 

 by this or any other knot. 



