Notes 



Page 135. Sir Francis Bacon. Walton quotes Bacon's Latin works through a 

 translation by Rawley, 1635-38-57. B. 



Page 136. Dr. Hakewill. Dr. George Hakewill was born at Exeter in 1579, 

 and was Rector of Exeter College, Oxford ; he died at his living at Heanton, in 

 Devonshire, in April 1649. 



Page 140. Salvian. Hippolito Salviani, a physician of Rome, who died 1572, 

 aged fifty-nine. Besides his Aquatilium Animalium Historic, Rom., 1554, fol., he 

 wrote De Crisibus ad (Jalenam Centura, and a comedy (La Ruffiana), with poems 

 in Italian. B. 



Page 140. St. Ambrose on the grayling. Dr. Bethune quotes the entire passage 

 thus : "Neque te inhonoratum nostra prosecutione, thymalle, dimittam, cui a 

 flore nomen incoluit ; seu Ticini te fluminis, seu amasni Atesis unda nutrient 

 flores. Denique sermo testatior, quod de eo cui gratam redolet suavitatem, 

 dictum facete sit, Aut piscem olet aut florem ; ita diem pronuntiatus est piscis 

 odor essi qui floris. Quid specie tua gratius ? Quid suavitate jucundius ? Quid 

 odore fragrantius ? Quod mella fragrant, hoc tu tuo corpore spiras." Hex- 

 a'e'meron, v. 2." 



Pages 149-150. Cjesner mentions a pike. Walton quotes the story from Dr. 

 Hakewill's </tpologie of the Power and Providence of tyd. According to Dr. Bethune, 

 the story, as found in Gesner, is, that a pike was taken in a pool near the capital 

 of Sweden (ut tradit Conradus Ce/tis), in the year 1497, on which, under the skin, 

 was discovered a ring of Cyprus brass, partly bright, having a Greek inscription 

 round the rim, which was interpreted by Dalburgus, Bishop of Worms, to signify : 

 " I am the fish first of all placed in this pond, by the hands of Frederic the Second, 

 on the fifth of October, in the year of grace 1230 ;" which would make its age 

 267 years. Hakewill gives the inscription in Latin thus : Ego sum ilia piscis huic 

 stagno omnium primus impositus per mundi Rectoris Frederici Secundi manus, 5 Octobris, 

 anno 1230. 



Page 150. Killingworth pond. The old name for Kenilworth. In all 

 probability this was the remains of the Lake constructed by the Earl of Leicester 

 for Queen Elizabeth's visit to Kenilworth Castle. 



Page 152. Dubravius. Janus Dubravius Scala, Bishop of Olmutz, in Moravia, 

 in the sixteenth century, was born at Pilsen, in Bohemia ; was sent ambassador into 

 Sicily, and made President of the Chamber which tried the rebels of Smalcald. 

 Besides the above book (the Latin title whereof is De Piscinis, et Piscum qui in eis 

 alunter, naturis} he wrote in Latin a History of Bohemia; and an oration to 

 Sigismund, King of Poland, exhorting him to make war on the Turks. He seems 



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