NOTES. 399 



" size, exhibiting its character and exact appearance at various 

 " stages during the first two years." Lond. 1839. Oblong folio. 



Page 136. Michael Dray ton. 



An excellent Poet born in Warwickshire, in 1563. One of 

 his principal works, which are very numerous, is the Polij- 

 Olbion, a chorographical description of the rivers, mountains, 

 forests, castles, etc. in this island. Although the poem has 

 great merit, it is rendered much more valuable by the learned 

 notes of John Selden. The author died in 1631, and lies 

 buried with the Poets in Westminster Abbey. Hawkins. The 

 passage referred to is at p. 88 of No. 14 of the foregoing list; 

 and in Camden it occurs at page 654. This extract is not in 

 the First Edition of Walton. 



Page 143. Gesner mentions a Pike. 



This story is told by Dr. Hakewill in his Apology, No. 21 of 

 the preceding list, lib. ii. chap. 8, sect. 2, p. 136, of that 

 volume. Walton subsequently mentions several instances of 

 the voracity of the Pike ; but, as a proof that other fish beside 

 will swallow hard substances, Fuller, in his History of the 

 Worthies of England, Lond. 1662. fol. Northumberland, p. 310, 

 relates from a book entitled " Vox Piscis," printed in 1626, 

 p. 13, that a Mr. Anderson, a townsman and merchant of New- 

 castle, who was afterwards knighted, and who was mayor of 

 that place in 1599, was conversing on the bridge there, and 

 suddenly let his seal-ring fall into the river Tyne. As Mayor, 

 he was entitled to the first Salmon caught in the season, and 

 upon opening the one that was thus presented to him, his own 

 rin? was discovered in its stomach. 



Page 147. Dubravius. 



Janus Dubravius Scala, Bishop of Olmutz in Moravia, in the 

 sixteenth century, was born at Pilsen in Bohemia, was sent 

 Ambassador into Sicily, and made President of the Chamber 

 which tried the Rebels of Smalcald. His book alluded to by 

 Walton, is No. IS in the foregoing list, the passage is in the 

 6th chap, of book i., and a translation of it was published in 

 4to. 1599, by George Churchey, Fellow of Lincoln's Inn. He 

 is said to have died in 1559. Hawkins. The extract from 

 Dubravius is not in Walton's First Edition. 



Page 152. Cardanus. 



Jerome Cardan, an Italian Physician, naturalist, and astrolo- 

 ger, born at Pavia, Sept. 24, 1501, well known by the many 

 works he has published : he died at Rome on Sept. 21, 1576. 

 It is said, that he had foretold the day of his death ; and that, 

 when it approached, he suffered himself to die of hunger to 

 preserve his reputation. He had been in England, and wrote 

 a character of our Edward VI. Hawkins. 



Page 158. Sir Richard Baker, in whose Chronicle, etc. 



