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Smith, G. / The laboratory; or, School of arts: containing a large collection of valuable secrets, experiments, and manual operations in arts and manufactures, highly useful to gilders, jewellers, enamellers, goldsmiths, dyers, cutlers, pewterers, joiners, japanners, book-binders, plasterers, artists, and to the workers in metals in general; and in plaster of paris, wood, ivory, bone, horn, and other materials
(1799)

Part X. The art of angling,   pp. 244-312


Page 244


    ~44        THE LABORATORY-
       4tI d V 1k                  0 Id iI~ j n1
            ART, OF ANGLING.
A   "NIIG     mngsotmn is the     art oc~iu
Oat!, o the mot materialparts o an anle's busiq6s
,to attrae and lure the fish to a conen-ient spot for anghg.
Thi  he may do, in standig waters, by throwino in
+,ewv§ griscopped worn, an~d -the like: 4ut Ali
chief dificulty is in deep rapid rivers and brooks. _
b~teth, intiae, is to get a tin bx -ith zvr,
-pbleof holding a vastnme ofworms;hic my be
allowed to crawl out at holes boredof a fit dameter togh
e    prt3 of it.  leaden weight it maypl ukan
be drawn back~ ag  -ti will, by ~a packthrad-puposely
afie  to it.Pr~al4y, f fish be plentiful wheriIhebay
is, hrownt in, the angler's sport will soon oa nw,
   6th~rise a~ pike- Tay, be suspected ona the~ spot ,: -B@l
boo4k, therfore, properly for him, a'id1Teuw- bixxsif
pvSbie froni-the pliace., :Should4 you remove him, your
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