THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



quoted in the text is in the first of these, No. 22 of the foregoing list, pp. 

 no, 113 of that volume, Stanzas 7, 8, 36. The word Owes in Herbert's 

 verses is the older form of Owns. 



Page 62. Gesner, Rondeletius^ Pliny, Ausonius^ Aristotle. 



Conrad Gesner^ an eminent scholar, philosopher, physician, and natur- 

 alist, was the son of Vasa Gesner and Barbara Friccius, and was born at 



Zurich in Switzerland in I?i6, and there received his initiation into the 

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jGreek and Latin languages. His poverty obliged him to travel, and at 

 length to study physic at Basle, where he took his Doctor's degree, and 

 then returned to Zurich. His works are very numerous, and were, many 

 of them, evidently written in haste to procure him a subsistence : of these, 

 the principal is the " Historise Animalium," for which he was surnamed 

 the Pliny of Germany. For twenty-four years Gesner was Professor of 

 Philosophy at Zurich, and he died of the plague on December 13, 1565. 

 Gulielmus Rondeletius, or Guillaume Rondelet, was a celebrated physi- 

 cian, who was born at Montpellier, in Languedoc, in 1507. He wrote 

 several medical books, but his best production is his Treatise " De Pisci- 

 bus Marinis," of which there is also a French translation. He died, in 

 great poverty, at Realmont in Albigeois, on July 18, 1566, of a surfeit, in- 

 duced by eating figs to excess. Caius Plinius Secundus, surnamed the 

 Elder, was born at Verona, and was celebrat d as a soldier, a statesman, 

 and a scholar. He wrote one hundred and sixty volumes of remarks on 

 the authors which he had read ; but his Natural History, in thirty- seven 

 books, is the only one of his works now extant. He perished in that 

 eruption of Mount Vesuvius which overthrew Herculaneum, A.D. 79, in 

 his fifty-sixth year. Decimus Magmis Ausonius was a Latin poet born at 

 Bordeaux in Gaul ; and preceptor of Gratian, the son of the Emperor 

 Valentinian, which occasioned him to be made Consul. His compositions 

 are chiefly Epigrams from the Greek, Epitaphs, and poetical Epistles. 

 He died about A.D. 390. Aristoteles, the celebrated philosopher, was born 

 at Stagira, and studied at Athens under Plato. He wrote above four hun- 

 dred literary and scientific volumes, and Alexander the Great magnificently 

 patronized his Natural History of Animals. He died at the age of sixty- 

 three, B.C. 322. 



Page 62. Divine Du Bartas. 



Guillaume de Salluste, Sieur Du Bartas, was the son of a Treasurer of 

 France, and was born in 1544, at Montfort in Armagnac. He served in 

 the army of Henry IV., as the commander of a company of cavalry, in 

 Gascony, under Marechal de Matignon ; and the King also employed him 

 in various commissions to England, Denmark, and Scotland. His works 

 are numerous, and written both in French and Latin verse ; but his prin- 

 cipal production is entitled *' A Commentary of the Week of the Creation 



