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OCEAN ANGLING. 



Now in pellucid sapphires meet the view, 

 And imitate the soft, celestial hue ; 

 Now beam a flaming crimson on the eye, 

 And now assume the purple's deeper dye. 

 But here description clouds each shining ray ; 

 What terms of art can nature's power display ?" 



He that would prepare himself for the pleasure and excite- 

 ment of his capture, should provide himself with a stout 

 hawser-laid cotton or hemp line of 28 or 30 fathoms length, 

 and in thickness about one-eighth of an inch ; to this 

 should be attached one of the largest size Cod hooks, seized 

 on to the line with the stoutest kind of white, black, or 

 colored No. 12 thread, or small fish line, well waxed with 

 shoemaker's wax ; for bait, use a large piece of salt pork, 

 about six inches in length by 2 or 3 wide, made well fast. 

 Fasten your line, cast your baited hook overboard,. and 

 troll till you get a bite ; pull him in with a steady line, 

 stout heart, and strong nerve, and he will soon repay 

 the trouble of his capture, both by the excitement of 

 the occasion, and the table exercise with the instruments 

 of appetite You will not find his meat as pleasant to 

 the taste as some others of the tribe, but rather 

 preferable to the salt pork upon which he expected 

 to dine himself. The sailors take him with a large piece 

 of bone, tin, or lead attached to a good sized hook ; 

 but you will find a much better article called an artificial 

 squid, of handsome shape, from 4 to 8 inches in length, and 

 composed of tin, after a similar manner, at the general 

 fishing tackle stores. This article is used without bait in 

 its simple form, being made something in the shape of a 

 fish. 



There are other fish captured in the same way, 

 on sea voyages ; among them the Bonita, Barracouta, and 

 Skip Jack. Smaller squids are employed, similar to those 



