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})ractic:il knowledge of sporting and fisliing, however, is superior to 

 his attainments as a scientific naturalist. His chapters on salmon 

 and trout fishing teem with useful hints, while he is indisputably the 

 first authority of his time on the wary Stiliiio ferox ^.\-\Q\ its capture 

 in the larger Scotch lochs.] 



Columella (Lucius Junius Moderatus). De re rustica libri xii. 

 Dublin. 1732. 8°.; Flensburg, 1795. 8°. 



[ Generally published with the works of other ' Scriptores rei 

 rusticas.' The chief editions are Venice, 1472. fol. (the ' Prin- 

 ceps'; Bologna, 1494. fol.; by Aldus, 1514. 8vo.; by R. Stephens, 

 1543. 8vo.; by Gesner, Leipzig. 2 vol. 1735 & 1773. 4to.; and by 

 J. G. Schneider, Leipzig. 4 vol. 1794. 8vo. The last being the 

 most complete. There is a (ierman translation by M. C. Curtius : 

 Zwolf Biicher von der Landwirthschaft. Hamburg and Bremen, 

 1769. 8vo.] 



Of husbandly, in twelve books, and his book con- 



cerningtrees, translated into English... London, 1745. 4°. 



[ Columella was born about the beginning of the Christian era 



and sprang from a family belonging to Gades (C^adiz). Book iv. 



cap. 16, L)e piscinis et piscibus alendis ; cap, 17, De positione 



piscinas.] 



Comenius ( John Amos). Latinse linguae janua reserata. The 



gate ot the Latine tongue unlocked. London : William Du- 



Gard, 1658. 8°. 



[ The author, a protestant divine, born in Moravia in 1592, was a 

 very earnest grammarian and attempted several improvements in 

 education. This work, which was originally published at Lesna in 

 Poland, in 1631, under the title, "Junua Linguarum," is a sort of 

 encyclopasdic phrase-book, each of its 100 chapters, containing the 

 words used in a separate art, science, or trade, and e.xplaining them 

 by means of the context. A previous edition, in Latin, English 

 and French, is dated, London, 1639 : 'The gate of tongues unlocked 

 and opened, or else a seminary or seed-plot of all tongues and 

 sciences.' In dealing with the art of fishing, he says : 



" A Fisher laieth wait for fishes ; ■ the greater ones swimming at 

 the top he striketh with a fish-spear ; the lesser ones swimming 

 against the stream he allureth with rushy bow-nets, sunk weels 

 (whereinto w^hen they are once gotten they cannot get 'forth :) the 

 deeper ones he draweth out of the river with a. purs-net or tramel : 

 out of a lake with a sweep-net and drags ( which sinck by reason of 

 the plumets hanged at the bottom, and flot by reason of the corks 

 on the top ; but they have a different wideness of the mashes ac- 

 cording to the bigness of the fishes :) part of that which is catched 

 he selleth ; part he putteth up in repositories, from whence when 

 there is need hee taketh them out with a ware-net : part he picketh 

 for salt fish. An Angler fisheth with a hook whereon having put a 

 bait, whatsoever fish being allured, biteth at it, hee is taken."] 



Competenz-Spharen. Die Competenz-Spharen...und der 

 Gesetzentwurf bctrtffend den Schutz und die Ausiibung der 

 Fischerei. Wien, 1876. 8". 



