e to the bank sides, with your laying-hook in the water: or a line may be thrown with good store of hooks, baited and plumbed, with a float to discover where the line lies, that they may be taken up in the morning.

MICROSCOPIC EELS. See ANIMALCULE, n° 8.

EELS in VINEGAR, are similar to those in four pastes. The taste of vinegar was formerly thought to be occasioned by the biting of these little animals, but that opinion has been long ago exploded. Mentzelius says, he has observed the actual transformation of these little creatures into flies: but as this hath never been observed by any other person, nor is there an instance of such a transformation in any other animalcule, it seems probable that Mentzelius hath been mistaken in his observations.a forked instrument with three or four jagged teeth, used for catching of eels: that with the four teeth is best, which they strike into the mud at the bottom of the river, and if it strike against any eels it never fails to bring them up.