HARDWICKE'S S CIE NCE-GOSS IP. 



37 



Fig. 37, Whale fishing-, from Munstcr's " Cosmographie." 



Fig. 38. Bear Trap, Irom a 15th century MS. 



and tells its own tale as to the 

 supposed origin of Barnacle 

 geese, believed in five centuries 

 ago, not only by the ignorant 

 and untaught, but also by the 

 learned. In fig. 35 we have a 

 pictorial description of the 

 mode of obtaining fish from the 

 ponds. In those fervent Ca- 

 tholic times, the breeding and 

 rearing of fish was an import- 

 ant matter, and all large man- 

 sions and religious houses had 

 their fish-ponds. The illustra- 

 tion is a fac-simile of a wood- 

 cut from that storehouse of 

 mediaeval art, the " Cosmogra- 

 phie Universelle" of Munster 

 (a.d. 1549). The net used by 

 the river fishermen (fig. 36) is 

 identical with that employed 

 in pond-fishing, and the eel- 

 basket seen on the edge of the 

 boat is precisely similar to those 



