AND OF STILL WATERS. in 



the elaborate fish-stew in the Palace of the 

 Caesars on the Palatine, from which the water 

 could be drawn off at will by means of sluices. 

 The Romans were too fond of the pleasures of 

 the table to overlook the gastronomical merits 

 of carefully fattened fish. 



But without going back so far in the history 

 of fish-ponds, we find almost the greatest au- 

 thority on fish-culture in the person of the good 

 bishop Dubravius, of Olmiitz, in Moravia, who 

 lived in the sixteenth century. Of this dignitary 

 the late Frank Buckland said that : " Bishop 

 or no bishop, he knew more about fish-ponds 

 than we do at the present day." He published 

 a Latin book in black-letter, entitled " Dubravius 

 de Piscinis," which is now extremely rare, and 

 of which there is a copy in the Bodleian Library 

 at Oxford. The title-page runs thus : " Jani 

 Dubravii, qui postea Olomucensis Episcopus 

 creatus est, de Piscinis et Piscibus, qui in eis 

 aluntur, naturis libri quinque, vi doctissimi, ita 

 ad rem familiarem augendam utilissimi, ad 

 illustrem virum Antonium Fuggerum. 1559." 



Into the subject of fish-ponds the Bishop goes 



