398 NOT E S. 



1659. page 1. The verses which introduce this song were in 

 all probability the production of Walton, for it may be observed 

 that Kenna is evidently a feminine formation of Ken, the 

 maiden name of his second wife. The first three words of the 

 song of " Like Hermit Poor," were used as a proverb or 

 phrase, about and after the middle of the seventeenth century. 

 Hawkins. 



Page 121. Our late. English Guzman. 



The very curious volume to which this passage alludes, is 

 entitled, " The English Guzman ; or the History of that unpa- 

 ralleled Thief James Hind, written by G(eorge) F(idge)." 

 Lond. 1G52. 4to. In the King's Tracts in the British Mu- 

 seum. 



Page 124. Gaspar Peucerus. 



An eminent Physician and mathematician, born at Lusatia, 

 in 1525: he married the daughter cf Melancthon, wrote 

 many books on various subjects, and died in 1602, aged 78. 

 Hawkins. Casaubon quotes him at p 252 of his book, No. 10 

 of the foregoing list. The paragraph from which the above 

 line is quoted, did not appear as it now stands, until the Fifth 

 Edition of Walton. The Hares changing sexes is mentioned 

 by Topsell, see No. 41, p. 266. 



Page 128. Learned Doctor Hakewill. 



Dr. George Hakewill was born at Exeter in 1579, and was 

 Rector of Exeter College, Oxford ; he died at his living of 

 Heanton in Devonshire, in April 1649. His book will be 

 found at No. 21, of the list, and the contents of the paragraph 

 in the text, which did not appear until the Second Edition of 

 Walton, are from p. 434 of that volume. In Walton's First 

 Edition this part falls in Chap. V. which is entitled, "Some 

 " direction to fish for the Trout by night ; and a question 

 " whether fish hear? and lastly, some directions how to fish 

 " for the Umber or Grayling." The titles of the other Chap- 

 ters in the First Edition, do not greatly differ from those in 

 the present. 



Page 131. Salvian takes him, etc. 



Hippolito Salviani, an Italian Physician, of the sixteenth 

 century; he wrote a treatise De Piscibus cum eorum figuris; 

 and died at Rome in 1572, aged 59. Hairkins. The passage 

 in the text is in chap. vi. p. 81, of No. 38 in the preceding list. 

 All references to Gesner concerning fish, will be found in the 

 fourth volume of No. 19. 



Page 134. The Salmon — is said to breed, etc. 



This very interesting and curious subject has been recently 



most minutely examined and illustrated by VIr. W. Yarrell, 



F.L.S. in his work " On the Growth of the Salmon in Fresh- 



" water, with six coloured engravings of the fish, of the natural 



