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4to., and "Country Contentments," Land. 1675, 4to. by 

 Gcrvase Markham. " Falconrie," in Two Books, Lond. 1G58, 

 4to. ; and " Another New and Second Book of Falconry," 

 Lond. 1618, 4to. by Simon Latham. Hawkins. The eulogies 

 on Hawking and Hunting are not in Walton's First Edition. 



Page 14. The Fichat — the Fulimart — the Mouldwarp. 



It has been ascertained that the first two of these names were 

 anciently applied indiscriminately to the Ferret and the Pole- 

 cat ; but the Fitchet, Fitchel, or Fitchew, is a name most com- 

 monly appropriated to the Weazel, and it is supposed is derived 

 of the Teutonic Visse, Fisse, or Fitche, an extremely rank animal 

 of the Mustela or Weazel genus. Dr. Skinner in his Etymolo- 

 gicon Linguae Anglicans, Lond. 1671. fol., under the word Fuli- 

 mart, states that " it is a word which is not in any place except- 

 " ing in the book called The Complete Angler :" but it may be 

 observed that Juliana Barnes, in the Book of St. Albans, speaks 

 of the Fulmarde as one of the rascal beasts of chase ; and Strutt 

 in his " Sports and Pastimes of the People of England," Lond. 

 1801, p. 14, places it as one of the animals of rank, or fetid 

 flight, which leave a foul scent behind them. In Dr. Adam 

 Lyttleton's Dictionary, it is called " a fetid mouse of Pontus ;" 

 and Phillips in his " World of Words," explains it to be a 

 species of Polecat, in which sense the word Fowmarte is still 

 used in Scotland. Francis Junius calls it " Fullmer, that is the 

 " same as Polecat, a Marten. It is from the Teutonic Ful, 

 " Fetid, and Merder, a Marten. Also in the Belgic it is now 

 " called Visse, which was formerly Fiest, from its offensive 

 " smell." Etymologicum Anglicanum. Oxon. 1743. fol. The 

 Mouldwarp is a name of the Mole, compounded of the Anglo- 

 Saxon words Molde, dust, and Weorpan, to cast. " We call" 

 says Verstegan, " in some parts of England, a mole, a MouW- 

 " warp, which is as much as to say a cast-earth." 



Page 14. Hon- could Cleopatra have feasted Mark Antony. 



See North's Translation of Plutarch's Lives, No. 35, of the 

 preceeding list page 982. Marginal letter d. of that volume. 



Page 15. One of the qualifications that Xenophon, etc. 



The Edition of the Cyropaedia used by Walton, was in all pro- 

 bability that marked No 44 in the preceding list : and the 

 passage referred to is in the first book. In the translation of 

 this author by the Hon. Maurice Ashley, Lond. 1728, 8vo. it 

 will be found in vol. i. p. 84. 



Page 17. Moses — who was called the Friend of God. 



This title in the Scriptures is usually applied to Abraham, see 

 2 Chron. xx. 7, Isaiah xli. 8, James ii. 23 ; but in Exodus 

 xxxiii. 11, it is said that " God spake to Moses as a Man to his 

 " Friend." Walton has another passage similar to the line 



