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Excerpt from Angling, or How to Angle, and Where to Go The historian Bede tells us, that Wilfri rescued the people of Sussex from famine in the eighth century, by teaching them to catch fish: for though the sea and their rivers abounded With fish, they had no. More skill in the art than to take eels. The seryants of Wilfrid threw into the sea nets made out of those by which they had Obtained eels, and thus directed them to a new source of plenty. 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.