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ance and disappearance, etc. together with any other 

 particulars it may be useful to know, written on the 

 back. The same will also form excellent cases for 

 hackles, or loose feathers, or dubbings of any descrip- 

 tion, the particular kinds and colours being marked upon 

 them in the same manner. And if the envelopes are 

 adapted in size to that of the feathers, so as to have no 

 superfluous paper, a vast number may be packed in the 

 drawers devoted to them in the above cabinet. 



Salmon-flies are best preserved by being stuck through 

 loops of paper or thread attached to squares of card- 

 board. 



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Those contrivances certainly protect us in a degree 

 from the direct action of the cold water of the river, and 

 to some extent shield us from its intensity ; but it must 

 not be forgotten that at the same time that the water 

 from without is prevented from getting access to our 

 limbs, the moisture exhaled from the pores of the skin 

 within is equally as effectually prevented from escaping ; 

 and this, becoming condensed amongst the interstices of 

 our garments, by the cold of the external water, keeps 

 us nearly as thoroughly soaked in wet as if we were at 

 once exposed to the current ; the waterproofs in this 

 respect exactly imitating the functions of the condenser 

 of a still. But should it be the will of anyone to pro- 

 tect himself thus from the assaults of cold water, he may 

 use either Macintosh stockings, which reach up to the 

 middle of the thigh or the body, or boots of waterproof 



