INDEX. 241 



PICTET, F. J., 128, 185 n. 



POPE, ALEXANDER, 84. 



POWELL, G. H., 7 n. 



PRIME, W. C, 217. 



PRITT, T. E., 150, 154, 157. 



PRUDENTIUS, 40. 



PULMAN, G. P. R., 84, 103, 213. 



first writer on dry fly, 97, 123—124. 



QUARLES, FRANCIS. 



introduction of Shepheards Oracles, written by Walton, 

 197. 

 RAVENNA, BATTLE OF, 6. 

 RED QUILL, 143, 177. 



history and dressings of, 163 — 164. 

 RED SEDGE, 144. 



history and dressings of, 165 — 166. 

 not mentioned till nineteenth century, 165; 

 RED SPINNER, 177, 189. 



mentioned in Treatise, 26, 162; by Mascall, 38, 117; in 

 Traitte, 164; history and dressings of, 162 — 164. 

 RED TAG, 73. 

 REEL, 



forerunner of, used by Fortin, 53, 54; first mentioned by 

 Barker, 70; figured by Venables, 70; multiplying, first 

 mentioned, 88; in general use, for salmon, 88; for 

 trout, 88. 

 RHEAD, LOUIS, 188. 

 RINGS, 



first mentioned, 95; history of, 95. 

 ROD. 



jointed, in Treatise, 20; and ferruUed, 20, 87; spliced rod 

 first mentioned by Lawson, 86; disappearance of 

 spliced to-day, 86, 87. 

 length of, in Treatise, 23; Cotton, 23, 67; long rods used 

 till nineteenth century, 23, 28, 85; Stewart first to 

 advise short rod, 85; Halford, 86. 

 materials for (and see split cane below) in Treatise, 19, 20; 

 hazel the favourite, 20, 90; whole cane, 40; Lawson, 41; 

 Cotton, 67, 68; Venables, 68; hickory, lancewood and 

 greenheart in nineteenth century, 90-— 92; greenheart 

 disliked at first, 91, 92. 

 split cane, first mentioned 1801, 92; is three or four- 

 sectioned, 92; English invention, 93; inventor, 93; 

 superseded by greenheart, 94; greenheart superseded 

 by six-sectioned cane, 94; an American invention, 94. 

 in France, first mention, 52, 53. 



could be bought in Markham's time, 48; and Cotton's, 68. 

 ' rush grown,' 68. 



