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it; he also assigned the sum, equal to 193. 155. of 

 English money, annually derived from this source, as a 

 dowry to the queen, for the purchase of jewels, oint- 

 ments, and other objects connected with her Majesty's 

 toilet. 5 



In the hieratic papyri certain fish are mentioned as 

 brought from the Puharuta, or Euphrates, to Egypt (Select 

 Papyri, pi. 75, 1. 7); and another fish or fishy substance 

 called " Rura," as coming from the land of the great 

 waters of Mesopotamia. (Ibid. pi. 96.) 



Fish are depicted in Egyptian hieroglyphics ; and in the 

 Mummy-room, in the British Museum, various articles of 

 domestic use among the Egyptians are stamped with figures 

 or representations of different kinds of fish. 



Thebes and Beni Hassan abound with representations 

 of gentlemen engaged in fishing for their amusement; 

 sometimes in running brooks, sometimes in ponds con- 

 structed within their own grounds. One angler appears 

 seated in a chair ; others are reclining on mats spread on 

 the green turf, beneath a shady tree, wrapped, if we may 

 judge from the expression of the countenance, in one of 

 those delicious reveries described by old Izaak as amongst 

 the pleasing consequences of his favourite occupation. 

 The rod was short, and of one piece ; the line generally 

 single, and furnished with a bronze hook. 



Some keener sportsmen used the spear with two barbed 

 points. Embarked in a boat of papyrus, they glided, as 



5 Herodotus, i, 52. 



