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RECEIT XXII. A dainty way to catch Fish in a dark night, with a Candle underwater.

GEt an Urinall, and put pretty soft clay therein, and with something that is flat at the end presse the clay gently to the bottom of the glasse, smoothing it as well as you can; then take a stick and shape it about the bignes of a Candles end, wet the stick, and put it in∣to the neck of the glasse, making a hole in the

middle of the clay, as you make clay candle∣sticks; Then make a little hoope of a willow stick, and tye peeces of Corke in foure places of the hoope equally distant, and get a thin light round peece of Boord, and with foure little sticks of an equall length tye one end of them to the Corks, and the other ends fa∣sten to the boord to support it, as you may see here in this Figure.

In the boord

[illustration] a candle inside a glass beaker in a frame half submerged in water held up from sinking by a stick

you must make a hole in the middle to put the neck of the Glasse through and there tye it, and make a loope with a string to the boord that you may with a long pole put it into the wa∣ter: when you will use it, put your Candle into the Glasse in the clay sock∣et, a little below the brim, that the wind blow not the light out. If you please, you

may with wax or glew put little peeces of Looking glasses, or other glasse under the boord, on that side next the water; and this light will shine a great compasse in the wa∣ter, that the Fish will streight resort to the same, where you may very easily take them with a Net.

This might be done with the Glasse alone, by tying Corks about the neck of the Glasse, to keepe the mouth above water.