10 ANGLING LITERATURE OF 



should be brought to her, and that none should be eaten 

 unless by royal permission. 6 



In conjunction with those indications of the art of Ang- 

 ling found among the remains of the ancient Egyptians, 

 we may place those recently discovered in the valuable 

 collections of monuments brought from Nineveh and 

 Thebes, partly deposited in the British Museum, and 

 partly distributed in private collections in this and other 

 countries. A gentleman in the county of Essex has 

 recently purchased, through a private channel, some 

 remains from Nimroud, on one of which there is a 

 distinct representation of an Angler, with a rod in hand, 

 fish by his side, and a fish-basket on his shoulder, exactly 

 of the same construction as rods and baskets are now 

 made in Britain. In the Nineveh marbles in the British 

 Museum we have a large figure called the l?ish-Deity; 

 and in the long slabs now fixing up in this establishment, 

 but not yet open to the public, there are several repre- 

 sentations of fishermen with baskets, and in the act of 

 fishing with rod and line ; and there are representations 

 of hundreds of fish, not unlike our salmon- trout, floating 

 about in the portion of the marble in which water is re- 

 presented. In another slab, depicting the vanquished 

 after a battle, we see the dead bodies of the slain thrown 

 into the water, and eagerly attacked by fish. On a 

 tombstone from Thebes there is a very beautiful and ac- 

 curate representation of a fish of the bream or perch kind. 

 6 Athen., viii, 4. 



