Notes on nets; or, The quincunx practically considered. To which are added miscellaneous memoranda - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ... suspended in the water. Floats and leads should always be bored only just large enough for the cord to pass through them. Some netters use flat pieces of cork cut thin and the corners somewhat rounded; and instead of one cord, they have two smaller ones running parallel, between which they place the cork, and whip the cords together at each end of the float, thus keeping it in place. No. 3.--The Hood Net is made in the form of a bag, and is netted from a square (see Note XII.) on a two-and-a-half inch spool. The bag is seven feet deep. The two top rows must be of double twine. At about sixteen rows from the top a float is made fast in any part of the purse or body of the net, and another parallel to it about one foot apart; and two more about a foot and a half lower down towards the bottom of the bag, in the same line as the other two floats. The mouth of this net is sewn on to an iron hoop two feet four inches diameter, and thus far it resembles a Landing Net; but it is always used with the mouth downwards, whilst the corks keep the bag floating in a position half perpendicular and half horizontal on the water. The mouth is held downwards by means of a long pole fastened into a socket, which socket rises perpendicularly from the centre of an iron arch, or half-hoop, measuring two feet four inches across at its widest part; this semicircle is fixed, at each end, to and across the iron hoop. The fisherman, by this contrivance, puts the Hood Net down upon a fish, in the same manner that one places an extinguisher over the flame of a lamp or candle. It requires some practice to manage the Hood Net adroitly. No. 4.--The Hoop Net consists of two parts. The body and the valve or funnel, which are united in the manner hereafter to be described. Begin with the bod...
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