THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 339 



the other chapters in the First Edition do not greatly differ from those in 

 the present. 



Page 135. Salvian takes him, etc. 



Hippolito Salviani, an Italian Physician, of the sixteenth century ; he 

 wrote a treatise " De Piscibus cum eorum figuris " ; and died at Rome in 

 1572, aged fifty-nine. Hawkins. The passage in the text is in chap vi. 

 p. 8 1, of No. 38 in the preceding list. All references to Gesner concern- 

 ing fish will be found in the fourth volume of No. 19. 



Page 137. The Salmon . . is said to breed, etc. 



This very interesting and curious subject has been recently most min- 

 utely examined and illustrated by Mr. W. Yarrell, F. L. S., in his work 

 " On the Growth of the Salmon in Fresh-water, with six colored engrav- 

 ings of the fish, of the natural size, exhibiting its character and exact ap- 

 pearance at various stages during the first two years." Lend. 1839. Oblong 

 folio. 



Page 138. Michael Dray ton. 



An excellent poet, born in Warwickshire in 1563. One of his principal 

 works, -which are very numerous, is the Poly-Olbion, a chorographical de- 

 scription of the rivers, mountains, forests, castles, etc., in this island. 

 Although the poem has great merit, it is rendered much more valuable by 

 the learned notes of John Selden. The author died in 1631, and lies 

 buried with the Poets in Westminster Abbey. Hawkins. The passage 

 referred to is at p. 88 of No. 14 of the foregoing list ; and in Camden it 

 occurs at page 654. This extract is not in the First Edition of Walton. 



Page 144. Gesner mentions a Pike. 



This story is told by Dr. Hakewill in his Apology, No. 21 of the pre- 

 ceding list, lib. ii. chap. 8, sect. 2, p. 136, of that volume. Walton sub- 

 sequently mentions several instances of the voracity of the Pike ; but, as a 

 proof that other fish beside will swallow hard substances, Fuller, in his 

 History of the Worthies of England, Lond. 1662, fol. Northumberland, 

 p. 310, relates from a book entitled " Vox Piscis," printed in 1626, p. 13, 

 that a Mr. Anderson, a townsman and merchant of Newcastle, who was 

 afterwards knighted, and who was Mayor of that place in 1599, was con- 

 versing on the bridge there, and suddenly let his seal-ring fall into the 

 river Tyne. As Mayor, he was entitled to the first Salmon caught in the 

 season, and upon opening the one that was thus presented to him, his 

 own ring was discovered in its stomach. 



Page 147. 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. 

 His book alluded to by Walton is No. 15 in the foregoing list, the pas- 



