Notes 



men find a black, deadish water, with small fishes therein." 'Britannia, Lancashire. 

 Fuller, who also reports this strange fact, humorously says, " that the men of this 

 place go a-fishing with spades and mattocks ;" adding, that fishes are thus found 

 in the country about Heraclea and Suis, in Pontus. H. 



Page 191. the eel dangerous meat. Among the curious fancies respecting the 

 medicinal qualities of the eel, is one of Pliny's, gravely vouched for by Galen, De 

 'Remediis Parabilibus (iii. p. 540, ed. Kiihn), that wine in which eels have been 

 suffocated cures a habit of drunkenness. On the other hand, in The Salernian 

 School of Regimen, we read : 



To eat of eels -will make you hoarse 



(A learned doctor doth discourse), 



But then 'twill soon relieve the fain, 



To drink, and drink, and drink again. (8891.) B. 



Page 191. as Solomon says of honey. Proverbs xxv. 16. Walton quotes in- 

 accurately. The verse runs : " Hast thou found honey ? eat so much as is suffi- 

 cient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it." 



Page 192. as the Jews do, to whom they \eels~\ are forbidden by the law. Levit. 

 xi. 9, 10 ; Deut. xiv. 9, 10. 



Page 195. Gasius. Antonius Gazius of Padua, of whom a short account is 

 given in Moreri (Diet. Hist., edit. Par., 1759, tom - v - P- IZ 3)- His principal 

 work, to which Walton alludes, was his Corona Florida CM.edicin<, sive De Conser- 

 vations Sanitatis, first published at Venice in 1491, when he was only twenty-eight 

 years old, chapters cxxx-vii., which relate to the qualities of river fish as food. 

 He died in 1530, not 1528, as some writers have asserted. See also Manget, Bibl. 

 Scrip. SWedic., tom. ii. lib. vii. N. 



Page 196. Doctor Sheldon. Gilbert Sheldon (1598-1677). A Royalist 

 divine, who was made Bishop of London at the Restoration, and succeeded Juxon 

 (1663) as Archbishop of Canterbury. He was also Chancellor of Oxford, where 

 he built the theatre which goes by his name. 



Page 20 1. sAllamot salt. Allamot is most probably a corruption of Alto CMonte 

 in Calabria, where there is a salt mine, formerly of great value and much worked, 

 though now neglected. Even that acrid salt could hardly turn a bleak into an 

 anchovy. B. 



Page 20 1. a Paternoster line. A Pater-noster line is a line of gut or twisted 

 hair, on which are tied, about eight inches apart, beginning at the bottom, three 

 or more hooks on snells (or pieces of gut) about three inches or less long. As the 

 hooks are distributed somewhat like the beads of a rosary, Hawkins says " it is 

 called a Pater-noster." B. 



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