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River of Josephus, is described in the Seventh Book and 5th 

 Chapter of his History, No. 24 in the list; and in the fifth 

 volume of Purchas, his Pilgrims and Pilgrimage, p. 581, will be 

 found some additional particulars and references concerning it. 



Page 29. Learned Dr. Casaubon's Discourse. 



Meric, son of Isaac Casaubon, a man of very great learning, 

 was born at Geneva in 1599, and was educated at Oxford ; he 

 was afterwards made a Prebendary of Canterbury, in addition 

 to which Oliver Cromwell vainly endeavoured to engage him by 

 a pension of 3001. to write the history of his time. He died in 

 1G71, bearing an amiable character for loyalty, religion, and 

 charity : he wrote many volumes, but the singular work men- 

 tioned in the text, will be found at No. 10 of the preceding 

 list, and the passage alluded to commences at page 243 of that 

 edition. 



Page 29. Collected by John Tradeseant . 



Of these names there were three persons, grand-father, father, 

 and son ; of whom the son is the one alluded to in the text. 

 They were all eminent botanists, and collectors of natural 

 curiosities, the two former were gardeners to Queen Elizabeth, 

 and the latter held the same situation under Charles I. They 

 resided at South Lambeth in Surrey, at a building now known by 

 the name of Turret- House; and, dying there, were buried in an 

 altar-tomb, singularly ornamented, in Lambeth church-yard. 

 With the youngest of the family Mr. Ashmole contracted an 

 intimacy, and, together with his wife, boarded at his house for a 

 summer; during which time he agreed with him for the pur- 

 chase of his whole collection of rarities, and it was accordingly 

 conveyed to him by a deed of gift from Tradeseant and his wife. 

 On his death, Ashmole was obliged to file a bill in Chancery for 

 the delivery of his property ; but soon after a decree had been 

 pronounced in his favour Mrs. Tradeseant was discovered 

 drowned in her own pond. This collection of natural curio- 

 sities, which was the first made in England, Ashmole be- 

 queathed with all its additions to the University of Oxford, and 

 thus founded the Ashmolean Museum. Hawkins. The list of 

 strange Fishes, etc. mentioned by Walton, will be found at 

 page 8 of a Catalogue of the Collection, entitled " Museum 

 " Tradescantium, or a Collection of Rarities preserved at South 

 " Lambeth, near London, by John Tradeseant." Land. 1656. 

 8vo. The passage from the words " But I will lay aside," 

 p. 28, down to " she locks up her wonders," p. 29, was not in- 

 serted till Walton's Fifth Edition. E/ias Ashmole, who is men- 

 tioned in the same sentence withTradescant, was bornMay 16th, 

 1617, and was a Chorister in Lichfield Cathedral. In 1638 he 

 became a Solicitor in Chancery ; but in 1649 he married his 



