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b Walton appears to have quoted from memory, from " Hake- 

 will's Apology," where Gesner is cited as the authority. It is there 

 stated that the fish was put into the pond in 1 230. The like account 

 differs, however, three years in the date, from that given in a well- 

 known book entitled the " Gentleman's Recreation," which is : " In 

 the year 1497, a fish was caught in a pond near Heilbron, in Suabia, 

 with a brass ring at his gills, in which were engraved these words : 

 I am the first fish which Frederick //., governor of the world, put 

 into this pond the $th of October, 1233." By which it appears that 

 this fish had then lived two hundred and sixty odd years. H. 



Janus Dubravius Scala, Bishop of Olmutz, in Moravia, in the 

 sixteenth century, was born at Pilsen, in Bohemia ; was sent am- 

 bassador into Sicily, and made President of the Chamber which 

 tried the rebels of Smalcald. Besides the above book (the Latin 

 title whereof is " De Piscinis, et Piscum qui in eis alunter, naturis,") 

 he wrote in Latin a " History of Bohemia ; " and an oration to 

 Sigismund, King of Poland, exorting him to make war on the Turks. 

 He seems to have practised the ordering of fish-ponds, and the 

 breeding of fish, both for delight and profit. His book " On Fish 

 and Fish-ponds," in which are many pleasant relations, was, in 

 1599, translated into English, and published in quarto, by George 

 Churchey, Fellow of Lion's Inn, with the title of " A New Book of 

 Good Husbandry, very pleasant and of great profit, both for Gentle- 

 men and Yeomen, containing the order and manner of Making of 

 Fish-ponds," &c. H. 



d In his nineteenth book, " De Subtilitate." Hieronymus Car- 

 danus was an Italian physician, naturalist, and astrologer, well known 

 by his numerous writings. He died at Rome, 1576. He is said 

 to have foretold the day of his death, and that, when it appmched, 

 he suffered himself to die of hunger to preserve his reputation. 

 He had been in England, and wrote a character of our Edward VI. 

 H. 





