Fishing Eods. 



135 



Mr. Green and Mr. Murphy put their heads together, and made 

 rods of this sort of four strands, and finally the old and well- 

 known firm of A. Clerk & Co., New York, introduced into the 

 market the Leonard rod of six and twelve strands, and have since 

 been supplying Europeans with all they get of this article." 



In 1881, in my " Book of the Black Bass," I gave a brief 

 history of the origin of the split-bamboo rod as made in the 

 United States, a:iving credit for the invention to Samuel 



Mr. Samuel Phillippe. 



Phillippe, of Easton, Pa., and the date of his first rods 

 as early as 1848. The proofs that I produced wore com- 

 plete and authentic enough to establish the claim for Phil- 

 lippe as the inventor of the split-bamboo rod in America, 

 and certainly as the first in the world to make a four- 

 section rod. Those made in England about that time, 

 and exhibited at the first World's Fair at the Crystal Pal- 

 ace in London, in 1851, were all three-section rods; that is, 



