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GENERAL INDEX. 



Longevity of anglers commented on 

 by Stephen Oliver, Jr., L, Ixxi 



Long Island, trout fishing on, II., 

 139 



Lucian, Epigram on, I., 6; his dia- 

 logue of the Fisherman, ib. 



Lycanthropy, account of, I., 113 



Major, his vindication of Walton's 

 gentility rebuked as impertinent, 

 I., lv,lvi ; his editions of the "An- 

 gler," Ixxxi 



Markham, Gervase, quoted, I.,iv; 

 his " Discourse " of angling a ver- 

 sion of Denny's Poetry, xli ; Pas- 

 sages from the Discourse, xlii- 

 xliv 



Marlow, Chr., I., 69; song by, 71 



Marsh-worm, I., 84 



Masaniello, an angler, I., iv 



Mascal, Leonard, supposed author 

 of a very early English " Booke of 

 Fishing," I., xxxv 



Matthiolus, P. A., reference to, I., 

 223 



Medway, notice of the river, I., 227 



Mercator, G., reference to, I., 60 



Miller's thumb, a name of the bull- 

 head, I., 222 



Minnow, I., 87, 8S ; artificial, ib ; 

 description of the, 220, 221 



Montaigne, playing with his cat, 

 passage quoted, I., 7 ; translated 

 by Cotton, II.,xiv 



Moses, reference to, I., 18 



Moulin, P du, reference to, I., 25 



Moxon, Edward, Sonnet to Walton, 

 I., cxii 



Moeris, his celebrated artificial lake, 

 stocked with fish, I., viii 



Music, general cultivation of, in Eng- 

 land, I., 200 



Music, songs set to, Appendix, II., 

 124, 125, 126 



Mullet, verses on the, I., 34; how 

 used in the Roman feasts, 59 



Nicholas, Sir Harris, Dissent to his 

 objections to Walton's additions to 

 the "Angler," I., Ixvii ; his magni- 

 ficent edition of the "Angler" 

 published by Pickering, Ixxxii 



Nightingale, melody of, I., 13 



Nowell, Dr. Alex., character of, I., 

 39 



Offley, dedication of the Angler to, 

 I., Ix, Ixxxvii 



Oils for baits, remarks on, I., 211, 

 II., 110 



Old Rose and Burn the Bellows, I., 

 48 



Oppian, author of the greatest work 

 in antiquity on Angling, I., xix; 

 Eulogiums upon, xx ; various edi- 

 tions of his book, xxi ; quoted, 

 174 



Otter, great destruction of fish by 

 the, I., 5, 47, 49 ; description of an 

 otter hunt, 48 ; whether a beast 

 or a fish, 47 ; tame ones taught to 

 fish, 48 



Overbury, Sir Thos., character of 

 " a fayre and happy milk maid," 

 I., 73 



Ovid, no stranger to the art of fish- 

 ing, I., xvi ; his supposed frag- 

 ment Halieuticon, xviii 



Palmer-worm, I., 98 



Park, Jas., Latin lines in praise of 

 Walton, I., cix 



Peucer, Gaspar, I., 113 



Perkins, Jr., his praise of Angling, 

 r., 3S 



Pesson — Maissonneuve, referred to, 

 I., 222 



Pearch, observations on the, I., 167, 

 16S; representation of the, 169; 

 how to fish for, 170; in American 

 waters, 169 



Pigeons, various uses of, I., 14 



Pike, observations on the, I., 133; 

 ancient mention of, in England, 

 134; the pike in America, 135; 

 long lived, 136; voraciousness of 

 it, 137 ; antipathy between the 

 pike and the frog, 139; represen- 

 tation of the, 140 ; how to fish for, 

 ]41, 142, 162; baits for, 143; how 

 to dress, 145; countries of, 146 



Pike Pool, StaflTordshire, description 

 of, II., 76 



Pinto, Ferdinand Mendez, I., 38 



Pickering, the publisher, an old an- 

 gler and bibliopolist selects the 

 notes to Sir Harris Nicholas' edi- 

 tion of the Complete Angler, I., 

 Ixxxii 



Piseco Lake, Extract from the jour- 

 nal of the Trout Club, Appendix. 

 II., 134 



Physical philosophy of Walton, 

 crude, I, 19 



