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Mackay fCliarlcs). Tlic Thames and its tributaries; 



or rambles am<m<; the rivers. 2 \'ol. Lomioii, Beiitley, 1840. 

 8°. 



Murray ( Jolin Fi'^her). A picturesque tour of the 



river Thames... Illustrated with upwards of one hundred., 

 wood engravings, etc. 2 vol. London, 1845. 8°.; [witli new 

 title :] London, Bohn, 1849. 8°. 



The river Thames from Oxford to the sea. 1859. 8°. 



Rules, orders and ordinances, to commence and take 



place from the 1st day of November 1785. ..for the governing 

 ...of all persons who shall fish or dredge on the river of 

 Thames, and also in the waters of Medway. London; printed 

 by Henry Fenwick. (1785.) pp.38. 8°.; London, 1827. 8°. 

 Rules, orders and ordinances for the fisheries in 



Thames and Medway. London : printed by Arthur Taylor, 

 1835. 1847 & 1848. pp.36. 12°. 



The blue book of the Thames Angling Preservation 



Society, containing the annual report, and a large amount of 



useful information to the Thames angler. London, 1881. 



pp.45. 16°. 



[ This society resulted from a meeting, held in 183S at Hampton, 

 by a few gentlemen of the neighbourhood, upon whom the neces- 

 sity of taking steps to suppress "the incessant poaching and 

 destruction of the voung brood and spawn," had been forced, by 

 the deterioration of the fishing in the river. Reports of the 

 Society's successful work have been issued each year, and to this 

 43rd issue is appended some "useful information," comprising the 

 rules of the Society, e.xtracts from the bye-laws of the Thames, a 

 list of fishing stations and river distances, and the names of the 

 members.] 

 Theakston (Michael). Sec 'List. A list of natural flies, etc. 



1853. 8°. 



Theocritus. The Idylliums of Theocritus translated from the 

 Greek, with notes critical and explanatory, by Francis Fawkes, 

 M.A. London, 1767. 8°. 



[ " The fishermen," Idvll xxi, contains 67 lines and has for its sub- 

 ject a dream of catching a golden fish, which an old man relates to 

 his comrade. It is chieflv notable for the enumeration of the fishing 

 implements in the hands of two poor Syracusan fishermen. The 

 poetical translators take great liberties with this list, Mr. Calverley, 

 being the least and Fawkes the most accurate. In plain prose the 

 " weapons of their trade" were : ''wicker baskets, rods, hooks, baits 

 covered with seaweed, lines of horse hair, and weels and wicker- 

 work mazes, cords, and oars and an old boat on props," (11. 9-12), 

 Theocritus, who was a native of Sicily and at the height of his repu- 

 tation B.C. 277, brought pastoral poetry to its highest perfection. 

 The Greek editions of his writings are very numerous, the most 



