The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Mans Recreation; Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1839. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Page 213. Like the Rosierucians.] The Bosicrucians were a sect of frantic enthusiasts, who sprung up in Germany about the beginning of the fourteenth century. They professed to teach the art of making gold; and boasted of a secret, in their power, to protract the period of human life, and even to restore youth. Their founder having been to the Holy Land, pretended to have learned all this from the Arabs. They propagated their senseless philosophy by tradition; and revealed their mysteries only to a chosen few; and to this practice the author alludes. Lemery.in his book Of Chemistry, has thus defined their art: "An sine arte; cujus principium mentiri, medium laborare, et finis mendicare:" An art without art; whose beginning is lying, whose middle is labour, and whose end is beggary. Page 215. There be divers kinds of Cadis or Case-worms. These are the larvse or sheaths of the Phryganea grandis of Linnaeus; and in their various states of Cadew-worms, Nymphae, Aurelia?, and perfect Insect, are represented at the head of this note. The flies produced from these cases greatly resemble the Moth tribe, but they are to be distinguished by their feelers and other marks about the head: the mouth is without teeth, and the lower pair of wings is plaited. Fig. 1, in the annexed cut, is a Sheath of Cade w-worm, formed of small shells, showing the enclosed fly in the act of feeding. Fig. 2, is a Case made of various refuse materials found by the water-side: as a curled snail-shell, bits of wood, and fragments of straws or twigs. Fig. 3, is a Sheath made of the shells of small water-snails. Figs. 4, 5,6, are Sheaths formed of a miscellaneous collection of articles, both aquatic and vegetable. All the above belong to that class of Cadew-worms commonly entitled Raff-coat...

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