Notes 



The passage taken from l^arro will be found in his book, *De Re Rustled, 

 Lib. iii. cap. xvii. 



Marcus Terentius Varro was a very learned Roman, who was Lieutenant to Pom- 

 pey in his piratical wars, and who obtained a naval crown. He was the contemporary 

 of Cicero, who greatly commends his erudition, and to whom he dedicated his five 

 books, 'De Lingua Latino, in his eightieth year. Besides these he wrote nearly 

 five hundred volumes, which are now all lost, excepting a treatise 'De e R^e Rusticd, 

 in the third book of which some notices of his Aviary may be found. He died 

 B.C., aged 88 years. LEMPRIERE and B. 



Page 38. a most learned physician, Dr. Wharton. Dr. Thomas Wharton was 

 descended from an ancient family in Yorkshire and was originally educated at 

 Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, from whence, however, he removed to Trinity 

 College, Oxford, before the breaking out of the Civil Wars. On the commence- 

 ment of the rebellion he came up to London, and practised physic under the 

 eminent Dr. John Bathurst, until 1646, when he again returned to his college, 

 and, through the recommendation of Lord Fairfax, was created M.D. early in 164.7. 

 In 1650 he was admitted a Fellow of the College of Physicians in London ; and, 

 it is said, was afterwards made Professor of Physic at Gresham College, where he 

 lectured in 1653. His residence was in Aldersgate Street, and he remained in 

 London throughout the whole of the last plague, of 1665. He died at his house 

 already mentioned, in October, or, as some assert, on the I5th of November, 1673. 

 He published an excellent description of the glands, written in Latin, which was 

 printed at London in 1656, 8vo ; Amsterdam, 1659. Hawkins, Wood" 1 * Athen. Oxon. 

 Edit. Bliss. Dr. Wharton's name was not inserted in the text at this place till the 

 edition of 1676, and the first is entirely without the eulogy on water. B. 



Page 40. Ike Antiquity of Angling. Dr. Bethune, in his Bibliographical Note, 

 devotes many learned pages to this subject. 



Page 41. in the prophet Amos mention is made offish-hooks, etc. See Amos, iv. z f 

 and Jno. xii. i, 2. 



Compare also Jeremiah xvi. 16 ; Isaiah xix. 8 and xxxvii. 29 ; Ezekiel, xxix. 4, 

 and xxxviii. 4 ; and Habakkuk i. 14-17. H. 



Page 42. the learned Pet. Du Moulin. Peter Du Moulin, son of the famous 

 Du Moulin of Charenton, whom a Jesuit opponent, Erizon, wittily but unjustly 

 called Moulin sans farine. The elder Du Moulin, with Drelincourt and Daille, as 

 appears from papers preserved in The Phoenix, vol. i. 1 5, had certified to their 

 Protestant correspondents in London, the attachment of Charles II. to the Protes- 

 tant religion, which tended to the Restoration. The younger Du Moulin, after- 

 wards coming over to London, was made Prebendary of Canterbury and chaplain 

 to the king. He wrote several pieces on the Roman Catholic Controversy. The 

 passage referred to by Walton occurs in the preface to a treatise on The Accomplish- 



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