If the names of inventors and tachle-makers are frequently 

 mentiotied in these pages, it is by no means with the intention of 

 puffing the wares or manufactures of particular firms or persons^ 

 but from the simple necessity, for the reader's convenience, of 

 telling him how or where he cati procure tvhat he is advised to 

 use — information without which the advice would be of little 

 practical advantage. Many of the recent itnprovements in fishing- 

 tackle, &'c., are, moreover, either patented or registered, and 

 therefore the property of individuals who are also entitled to the 

 credit of their inventions. 



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