APPENDIX II. 



HISTORICAL NOTE. 



About the year 1770 upon the trial of an indictment, before 

 me, at Hick's Hall a basket was produced in evidence, contain- 

 ing flounders that had been taken with unlawful nets in the river 

 Thames, so small that scarce any one of them would cover a half- 

 crown piece. The indictment was for an affray, and an assault on 

 a person authorized to seize unstatutable nets ; and the sentence 

 of the offender was a year's imprisonment in Newgate. H, 



GENERAL NOTES. 



1 The cardamlne, which with its white flowers is so lovely an 

 ornament to the riverside meads in spring. 



2 The otter is, of course, a beast of the weasel and polecat 

 family. 



8 Herons fly farther for their meals than any other bird I know 

 of. 



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