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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 



make up the party, and its equipments. These monsters of the 

 deep are captured of immense size, measuring often from sixteen 

 to thirty feet across the back. They will tow a party about for 

 many miles, and often succeed in breaking away, after two or 

 three hours' play. 



Our line of discourse on the different modes of taking the 

 variety of the finny inhabitants might be extended ad infinitum, 

 but the length already exceeds the design ; we shall, therefore, 

 brother anglers, make a half-hitch here, to be extended per- 

 haps more profitably and pleasantly on some other occasion. 



