JJune. Del, sculp.

THE

Art of Angling.

By R. BROOKES, M. D.
Now Improved with ADDITIONS,
And formed into a DICTIONARY.

In Two

I. Containing an Ac-
count of Fish, and Fish-
Ponds: A new Art of
Fly-making: The new
Laws that concern An-
gling The fecret Ways
of catching Fish by Oint-
ments, Pastes, and other
Arts Directions how to
procure Baits, and for
making all Sorts of Fish-
Tackle, with the fureft Me-
thod of finding Sport, &c.

PARTS.

II. Of the great Whale,
and Whale-Fishery; the
devouring Shark; the am-
phibious Turtle; the luf-
cious Turbot and Sole;
with Flying Fish, Sea-De-
vil, and other extraordi-
nary Productions of the
Sea. Likewife a Natural
History of the Inhabitants
of the Salt Water, and
the various Methods of
| Rock and Sea-Fishing.
ILLUSTRATED:

With One Hundred and Thirty-five CUTS,
exactly defcribing the different Kinds of FISH
that are found in the Fresh or Salt Waters.
The Whole forming

A SPORTSMAN'S MAGAZINE;
And comprizing all that is curious and valuable in
The ART of ANGLING.

In flow'ry Meads, oh let me live!
Where cryftal Streams fweet Solace give;
To whole harmonious bubbling Sound,
My dancing Float and Heart rebound.

LONDON,

Printed for T. LOWNDES, in Fleet Street.

TO

RICHARD HEATH,

Of Hatchlands, in the County of Surry, Efq;

SIR,

T

HE Pleafure I enjoyed, when I had the Honour of your Converfation in the Country, makes me now defirous of prefixing your Name to this Treatife, merely as a Teftimony of Respect and Gratitude for Favours already received.

I now lay before you the ART of ANGLING, and am too well acquainted with your Difpofition to favour every thing that is defigned for Information and Improvement, to defpair of its meeting with a candid Reception. Befides, the Study of Nature always has been and always will be efteemed by the wifeft Men an Entertainment worthy of the moft rational Mind, and confequently no way unfuitable to the higheft Rank; which I the A 2

rather