APPENDIX IX. 



HISTORICAL NOTES. 



* From a passage in the book of Dame Juliana Berners, it 

 appears that in her time there were carps, though but few, in 

 England. It seems, therefore, that Mr. Mascall, of Plumstead, 

 did not first bring hither carps ; but, as the curious in gardening 

 do by exotic plants, he naturalized this species of fish ; and that 

 about the era mentioned in the above distich, " Hops and turkeys," 

 &c., which is elsewhere read thus : 



" Hops, reformation, turkeys, carps, and beer, 

 Came into England all in one year." 



H. 



b Carps live longest out of water of any fish. It is a common 

 practice in Holland to keep them alive for three weeks or a month 

 by hanging them in a cool place with wet moss in a net, and feed- 

 ing them with bread steeped in milk, taking care to refresh the 

 animal now and then by throwing fresh water over the net in which 

 it is suspended. H. 



Paulus Jovius, an Italian historian, of very doubtful authority ; 

 he lived in the sixteenth century, and wrote a small tract, " De 

 Romanis Piscibus." He died at Florence, 1552. H. 



<* Mr. Fr. Ru. This memorandum occurs for the first time on 

 the margin of the fifth edition. It refers, no doubt, to Mr. Francis 



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