NETTING. 225 and fowling, but we are not to infer, that even in this remote age, they were ignorant of netting of a finer description: indeed, if we may credit the ancient writers, their productions of this kind far surpassed those of modern times.* … There is scarcely a hunter or a fisherman who does not under- stand netting in its rudest and simplest style. The instruments requisite are,—a pin or mesh, on which the loops are made, and by which their size is consequently determined; and a needle shaped into a fork of two prongs at each end, the…
Needlework
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