Excerpt from The British Angler, or a Pocket-Companion for Gentlemen-Fishers: Being a New and Methodical Treatise of the Art of Angling; Comprehending All That Is Curious and Useful in the Knowledge of That Polite Diversion Thegreat Dificulty was to find fitflicie'nt to, add. For this, befides my own Obfiervatzons, which I was not jb vain as to depend much on, unlefi they had the Concurrenee of others, I have gathered up all that I could from the Converfa tion of my Angling Friends, who/e good Nature in this'refideet I cannotbut acknowledge. I have alfo found fornething in one or two bf the mo/t modern Books, which however I have eenfparing in the Ufe of, as thinking it fairer to let theeuthors fpeak for them/elves. Fihe mo]? I have borrowed is on the Articles of Thames and Rock-filhmg, and that I have fo much reduced, that it can be no Prejudice to any larger Account. Alma/t eve ry Angler about London knows as much of the Thames as is neceflary, and very few have either Opportunity or Inslination to purfue the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.