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but they be somewhat blackish, which you Germans call 

 Aeschinius. Both these kindes are called Salares Troutes, 

 a Saltatu, of leaping, because they leape on high ; but in 

 especiale the purple troute, which easily wdll leape over 

 high hedges or dammes " (v. 10). 



Janns (John) DuBRAvius (Dubran) Scala was born at 

 Pilsen in Bohemia, was made Bishop of Ormutz in Moravia, 

 and afterwards sent as Ambassador into Sicily. He was 

 President of the court which tried the Rebels at Smalcald. 

 Besides his book De Piscinis et Piscium qui in eis aluntur 

 naturis, he wrote a valuable history of Bohemia in xxxiii. 

 books, 1575. He died not long afterwards, with great 

 reputation for piety and learning. 



The English translation of his work on Fish and Fish- 

 ponds is very rare, it never having been reprinted. It is 

 in black letter. 



In the year after the above appeared, " Certaine Experi- 

 ments concerning Fish and Frvite, practised by John Ta- 

 VERNER, Gentleman, and by him published for the benefit of 

 others. London. Printed for William Ponsonby. 1600." 

 Small quarto. The author, in his preface, declares himself 

 to have taken his intention to publish his own experiments 

 from the publication by Churchey of Dubravius. He is 

 altogether occupied by Fish in ponds, and says nothing of 

 angling. The book has never been reprinted, and is ex- 

 tremely rare. Mr. Haworth's sold for £2, Is. My copy 

 is bound up with Dubravius, and the two seem generally to 

 have been companions. It is in black letter. 



In 1013 there appeared a poem of a hundred and fifty 

 Spenserian stanzas with the title : " Secrets of Angling, 

 teaching the choicest Tooles, Baytes, and Seasons for taking 

 of any Fish in pond or river, familiarly practised and 

 opened in three boohes, by J. D., Esqr., London.'' 12mo. 

 On the title is a wood-cut, representing two men, one with 

 a sphere at the end of his angle and a label, 



