FISH HOOKS of H s o u t h w a l e s .
Fig. A. reprefents ;a hook of the fame fize,, formed of a
hard black wood-like '^fubftance, neatly executed, and
finiihed j^ithia fmall knob to afiift in fattening it to the line;
it is well mounted: the line. confitts of two ftrands very
^ve-nlydaidy. and twitted hard; made with a grafiy fubftance
dark dn^ .colour, and nearly .as fine as raw filk : the length
of it is fhewn by, the-.top of the rod being broken off.
Fig. ,B. is a hoo kp l mother of pearl* formed by an internal
yoffUte of fome fpiral fhell, ' affifted by grinding it a little on
ohe fide,only : the point of this -hook, as well as of the former,
,fieems, to an Europe^n, to turn fo much as to render
them almoft ufelefs* V
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