Note 410 — NEW ENGLISH CANAAN OR NEW CANAAN. (continued 2)
Reading edition
“These Macrills are taken with drailes, which is a long small line, with a lead and a hooke at the end of it, being baited with a peece of a red cloath.” (New England’s Prospect, p. 30.) This instrument still bears the same name and is used in the same way.