Action, its connection with man's Ant-fly, 102, 275, 277; directions
happiness, 66.
Adonis, river, 68.
Elian, C., account of, 75.
Air, eulogium on, 49.
Albertus Magnus, 109, 240; account of, 109.
Alchemists, the practices of, 360-1. Aldrovandus, U., 140, 173, 174, 230, 244; account of and portrait, 140. Alstonefield, 374.
Ambrose, St., his admiration of the Grayling, 174.
Amerley trout, superiority of, 108,
Amos, Illustration from 65, 80.
for making, 424, 426; black ditto, 426; large red, 426.
Antony and Cleopatra, amuse them- selves with angling, 81. Ants-eggs, a bait for Roach, 280. Apostles, four of them fishermen, 79; comparison of their language, 80.
April, artificial flies for, 145, 148, 410.
Aristotle, 68, 73, 78, 209.
Arm, explanation of the term, 148. Artist, definition of, 387. Arun, river, 206.
Ashbourne ale, 375, 470.
Amwell-hill, 46, 88, 465; view of, Ash-fly, Oak-fly, Woodcock-fly, Can-
Angel, a coin; value of, 317. Anglers, character of, and exception in Tomaso Aniello, 116; eminent modern, 269; ditto ancient, 80; qualities of, 64; the Angler's Wish, 86, 159; ditto song, 127, 262, 266; their peculiar enjoyment of nature, 7, 138.
Angling, earliest English work on, 6; defence of, 48; praise of, 64-6; antiquity of, 65; allowed to eccle- siastics, 81; remarks on, 82, 83; with an artificial fly, (See under Flies); with a natural fly, 153, 384; at the bottom, 382, 437; in the middle, 382, 444; with cadis, 286, 440, 441; with a minnow, 135; with a running-line, 134, 437; with a ledger-bait, 196; with a float, 439; by hand, 437.
non-fly, and Downhill-fly, the same, 153; how produced, and where found, 153-4.
Ashford, in Derbyshire, 370, 473. Ash-grub, 440.
Ashmole, E., his collection of Natural History, 70; portrait and account of, 71.
Assa-fœtida, grateful to the senses of fish, 134, 184.
Avon, the rivers, 86; account of, 464, 473.
August, artificial flies for, 146, 426. Augustin, St., life of, referred to, 318.
Aukham, in Lincolnshire, famous for eels, 246.
Ausonius, D. M., 73, 258; account of, 73.
Awber, the river, 370. Awberson, town of, 370.
Bacon, Fr., Baron Verulam, refer- ences to, 109, 111, 169, 170, 179, 181, 184, 188, 212, 213, 237, 239; portrait of, 169.
BAIT, general, 282; other general baits, 284; Winter-bait for Roach, &c., 277; baits, method of dis- covering what fish take, 282, 408; scented, 134, 184. Artificial, 332. [And see the titles Cadis, Flies, Frogs, Gentles, Grasshopper, Graves, Ground-bait, Grub, Loach, Minnow, Oils, Pastes, Shrimps, Stickleback, Wheat, Worms, and each kind of fish by name.] Baker, Sir R., reference to, 208. Bakewell, town of, 370, 473. Balæna, same as the Whale, 69. BARBEL, 249; how to fish for, 252; spawn of, poisonous, 250; flesh dangerous, 250; an angler caught by a barbel, 253; aver- age size of, 249; haunts of, 250; notable patience of a barbel- angler, 254, n.; party of barbel- fishers, remarkably successful, ibid.; engraving of the, 251; season of the, 272.
Barker, Mr. Thomas, an old angler, and a writer on angling, 11; quo- tations from, 146, 282; notable story of his fishing in the night, 146; specimen of his poetry, 199. Barnacles, 71.
Bartholemew's, St., tide, 225. Bats not migratory, 108. Bavin, meaning of the word, 303. Bede, Venerable, his notice of the
Island of Ely, and account of, 237. Beef, powdered, 420.
Beer, bottled, origin of, 84. Beggar, blind, of Bethnal Green, story of, 317.
Beggars, humorous story of, 163. Beresford Hall, 362, 375; view of, 392; Walton chamber, 363; en- graving of, 363.
Berners, Dame Juliana; of a noble
family; learned and accomplished; authoress of a book on "Angling," extracts from it, 6; woodcut from, 6; her work on Hunting, &c., 6-7 ; referred to, 208.
Birds, various properties of, 50; enemies to fish, 95; migration of, 108; various breeds of, 112. Bishop-Fish, strange account of, from Rondeletius, &c., 74. Black and blue Dun-flies, directions for making, 426.
Fly, ditto, 145, 414, 423. Gnat-fly, ditto, 410, 424. Hackle-fly, ditto, 425-6. BLEAK, particulars of the, and en- graving of, 258-9.
Bleak Hall, 463; engraving of, 116. Blue Dun-fly, directions for making, 407, 409, 427.
Boanthropy, Nebuchadnezzar punished with, 166. Bobbing for eels, 242. Bottles of hay, 199.
Boyle, Hon. Rob., his 'spiritualised angling,' ridiculed by Swift, 13. Brailsford or Brelsford, notice of, 358, 473.
Brailsford well, engraving of, 357. Brandling, 131, 232. BREAM, observations on the, 219; engraving of, 220; baits for, 221- 2-3; haunts of, 225-6; seasons of the, 225; considered good eating formerly, 220-221. Brian, probably the name of Walton's dog, 160.
Bright Brown-fly, directions for making, 409.
Dun Gnat, ditto, 405. Brown, dark, fly, 410; large fœtid light, 428.
Broxbourn on the Lea, 463; view of, 172.
BULL-HEAD, 289; account of and engraving, 290, 292.
Bullin's, Mrs., cottage, 226, 463. BULL-TROUT, where found, &c., 109. Burning springs accounted for, 68. Butler, Charles, his book of "Bees," 53.
Butler, Dr. W., remark and account of, 158.
Byron, Lord, lines on Walton, 198.
CADIS, several kinds of, enumerated, 284-5, et seq.; a good bait, 286; cock-spur cadis, a choice bait for float fish, ibid.; engraving of, 285, 416; how to bait with a yellow cadis for Trout, 286; where found, 286; how to take, 287; may be used with a worm or fly, 441-2. Calve, to, definition of, 399. Cambridgeshire, rivers of, 479. Camden, W., references to, 68, 91, 226, 238, 240, 247, 301; portrait of, 68.
Cannon-fly. See Oak-fly. Cardanus, H., extract from, and ac- count of, 197.
CARP, observations on, 207; how to fish for, 215, 216, 217; excellent bait for, 217; ground-bait, 223; when and by whom first brought into England, 207; their fertility, 208; large size, 209; longevity, 208, 212; docility, 170; observations on the breeding of, 208, 213, 303; how to dress, 217, 218; engraving of the, 207, 214.
Casaubon, Dr. M., references to, 70,
166; account of, 70. Casting the line, directions for, 387. Catch, the angler's song is not a, 265.
Caterpillar, account of, 138; bred, 138, 139. Caussin, N., references to, 313. Chalkhill, verses by, 125, 262. Chameleon, that it lives on the air a vulgar error, 109. Chantilly, tame carp at, 212.
CHAR, a local fish, 247; engraving of, 247.
Charles the First, anecdote respect- ing, 13.
Chingford, view at, 154, 226, 462. CHUB, observations on the, 89; engraving of, 97; dibbing for, 101,
102; how to fish for and dress the, 99, 100; haunts of, 104. Church Catechism, the author of, disputed, 83.
Clarendon, Lord, his opinion on the question, Whether the happiness of man consists more in contemplation or action, 66.
Coble or Cockle-boat, 176. Coch-y-bonddhu, 410.
Cockchafer, grub of the, 441. Cocks known to bring up chickens, 78.
Colne, river, account of, 467. Confidence in God, incitements to, 319. Conscience, happiness of a good, 313. Contemplation, 66.
Content, verses in praise of, 265, 314; incitements to, 318. Cooper-brook, confluence of, with the Don, 430.
Coriate, Tho., account of, 372-3. Cotton, Charles, Esq., life of, 341; letter of, 351; verses by, 353; his fishing-house described, 379; view of, 377.
Country life, song in praise of, 125; scenery, beautiful description of, 264.
Covetous men unhappy, 47. Cow (red), milk used in consumption, 255.
Cowley, quotation from, 317, 318. Crassus, reference to, 239. Cray river, reference to, 106, 470. Crucians, a small pond-fish, 294. Cuckoo-spit, the nidus of the gras- hopper, 107.
Cuttle-fish, account of the, 74. Cynanthropy, 166.
DACE, observations on, 271; how to fish for, 276; haunts of, 280, 281; with a gnat or grashopper, 103, 281; engraving of, 276.
Danes, the, sail up the river Lea, 299. Daping, or Dabbing. See Dibbing. David, his gratitude to God, 312. Davison, F., humorous song by, 164, account of, 164.
Davors, J., pastoral song by, 86. December, artificial flies for, 428. Derbyshire, rivers of, 367, 471. Derham, Dr., his account of the pro- duction of the Oak-fly, 155. Derwent, the river, 292, 369, 370, 470, 472.
Dibbing, angling with a live fly, or with another insect as a fly, 122, 153, 281; how to put the Green- drake-fly on the hook, 418; when to dib with the Stone-fly, 422; Camlet-fly, 423.
Diodorus Siculus, references to, 264. Docks, below London Bridge, the fishing at, 452.
Donne, Dr. J., his portrait, v.; praise of Walton's life of, 3; refer- ence to, 314; copy of a seal given by him to Walton, 33; verses by, 234; biographical sketch of, 13. Dove, river, account of, 367; views near or on the Dove, 358, 365, 366, 377, 383, 392, 402, 412, 420, 430, 432, 436, 443, 447; derivation of the name, 368; further account of, 472.
Dove, the, as typical of the Holy
Spirit, 52; engraving of, 77. Dovedale, description of, 368. Downhill-fly. See Oak-fly. Drayton, M., his description of the
salmon-leap, 180; sonnet on the English rivers, 298; account of, &c., 180.
Du Bartas, G. de S. Sieur, account of, 73; references to, 73, 76, 77, 141, 238.
Dubbing, materials for, 149; how to
put on, 389; how to discover the true colour of, 396. Dubravius, J. S., references to, 193, 213, 303; account of, 193; por- trait of, 306.
Ducks, young, devoured by pike, 192; by eels, 241; destructive to fish, 304.
Dyticus marginalis, account of, 211; engraving of the larva of ditto, 211.
Earth, eulogy on, 54.
Earth-worms, how bred, 131. Ecclesiastics, hunting forbidden to, 81; where, 82.
EELS, observations on, and how to fish for, 236; haunts of the eel, 244; how to dress, 243; an ovi- parous fish, 245; young ducks devoured by eels, 241; engravings of, 236, 243; travel over land, 240; generation of, 244, 245. Elizabeth, Queen, her wish in May, 119. Ephemeron, account of, from Swam- merdam, 139.
Epigram, by John Owen, 61. Erasmus, reference to, 133.
Feathers, the several kinds of, used in fly-making, 149; a yellow dye for, 418.
February, artificial flies for, 406. Fence-months, 94. Fern-fly, 426.
Fish, have the sense of hearing, 169; do not generate like other animals, 192, 236; their docility, 170; sometimes dug out of the earth, 240; do not grind their food, 219; monstrous, 59, 300; singular fish described by Dr. Wharton, 299; leather-mouthed, definition of, 103; gold and silver, 294; salted, for baits, recommended by Walton, 136; disapproved by Cotton, 444; days, law concerning, 93; insects destructive to, 210, 211, 212; number of kinds of, 79.
Fishermen (ignorant) take a sea- monster to church, 74. Fishermen on the beach, engraving, 248.
Fish-hooks, mention of, in the Scrip- tures, 65, 80.
Dun-flies, directions for making, 145, Fish-ponds, directions for making, 302.
Fishing-at-the-top. See Angling with a natural or artificial fly, and see
Grasshopper. Fishing-at-the-bot- tom, see Angling with a running- Granam or green Palmer, line, and with a float. Fishing-in- the-middle, 114, 444; and Angling with a ledger-bait: angling with a float may belong also to this branch, according to the directions for taking each species of fish. Fishing-house at Beresford Hall, view of, 377, 383; description of, 379; motto on, 380. Fishing-tackle, 287-8, and appendix, p. 321.
Fishing-waters, appendix, 449, et seq. Flesh flies, 276, 424.
Fletcher, P., verses by, and account of, 265.
FLIES ARTIFICIAL and NATURAL :- Ant-fly, 277, 424, Dun, 145.
tail, 412, en- 147, 407, 426. graving of, 412.-brown, 283. Hackle or Palmer. -plain, 406. See Palmer. -lesser, 406. Harry - long - legs, -great, 407, 414. 427, engraving-another great,407. of, 427. -gold twist, 153, Hawthorn fly, 153. Hofland's fancy, -with
Horse-flesh-fly,412. -gold twist with a Horse leech fly,
183. House-fly, 276. May-fly, 148, 152- 3; engraving of,
Dun, blue, 409, en--little yellow, 415.
-red, 405-6, en--white, 405. graving of, 405. -whitish, 409. -small bright, 410. -yellow, 146, 411. Cadis-fly, 285-6, -great; 407, en- 416. graving of, 407. Camel-brown, 427. -prime; 408, en- Camlet, 384, 423. graving of, 408. Caterpillar-fly, 276. Dun cut, 414. Coch-y-bonddhu, Fern-fly, 426. Flesh-fly, 276, 424. Cow-dung fly, 415. little, 424. Cow-lady, 415. Gnat, black, 410. Drake, dark, 146. -bright dun, 405. -green, 384, 413--brown, 424.
Miller, white, or owl-fly, 423. Moorish, 145. Oak-fly, 152-3-4- 5, 419. Orange-fly, 425. Owl-fly, or white miller, 423, en- graving of, 423.
purple body, 424. Palmer-worm, 148. Peacock-fly,
Ruddy-fly, 145. Sad-yellow fly, 145. Salmon-trout fly, 148; engraving of, 148. Spinner, great red, 424-5; engraving of, 424. Shell-fly, 145, 426, Stone-fly, 145,384, 413, 415, 416, 419, 421-2-3.
Palmer, or hackle Tawny-fly, 145. black, 147, 283, Thorntree-fly, 409. 407, 425; en-Turkey-fly, 414. graving of, 406, Violet-fly, 411. -red, 147, 283, Wall-fly, 102. 407. Wasp-fly, 145,425. Flies, artificial, how to make, See above list; rules prescribing par- ticular flies for each month not to be servilely followed, and why, 32; the making of flies by the angler himself recommended, 395; dub- bing feathers, and other materials, enumerated, 149; how to angle with, 386; hue to vary with the complexion of the day, and water, 146, 153, 407; natural, how to angle with, 153, 384. Float-angling, directions for, 287. Floats, various directions concerning, 287, 331.
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