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fon begins about the fourteenth of September, and 

 ends the twenty-fifth of February, and during that 

 fpace, about 4000 dozen are caught, which fupply 

 the markets of the metropolis. Thofe caught in the 

 day are taken in clap-nets of fiveteen yards length, 

 and two and a half in breadth ; and are enticed with- 

 in their reach by means of bits of looking-glafs, 

 fixed in a piece of wood, and placed in the middle of 

 the nets, which are put in a quick whirling motion, 

 by a firing the larker commands ; he alfo makes ufe 

 of a decoy lark. Thefe nets are ufed only till the 

 fourteenth of November, for the larks will not dare 9 

 or frolick in the air except in fine funny weather ; and 

 of courfe cannot be inviegled into the fnare. When 

 the weather grows gloomy, the larker changes his 

 engine, and makes ufe of a trammel net twenty-feven 

 or twenty-eight feet long and five broad ; which is 

 put on two poles eighteen feet long, and carried by 

 men under each arm, who pafs over the fields and 

 quarter the ground as a fetting dog-, when they hear 

 or feel a lark hit the net, they drop it down* and fo 

 the birds are taken. 



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