6 ANGLING LITERATURE OF 



human family. In the days of Moses, we find that the 

 Israelites ate freely of fish, which were served up with 

 cucumbers, as salmon is at present. This is related of 

 them in their sojourn in the land of Egypt, and is 

 mentioned in the eleventh chapter of the book of 

 Numbers. . . 



*V In otter; fopaks df Scripture we find mention is made of 



angling^ .in Jgb,. Analog, Isaiah, and Habakkuk. Bishop 

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 t his. t Tsalarh/ translates the prophetic description 



of the destruction of Egypt in these terms : 



" And the fishes shall mourn and lament ; 

 All those that cast the hook in the river, 

 And those that spread nets on the surface of the waters 



shall languish. 



And they that work the fine flax shall be confounded, 

 And they that weave net- work ; 

 And her stores shall be broken up ; 

 Even all that make a gain of pools of fish." 



It is likewise recorded of Solomon that " he spake of 

 beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes" 



In the Mosaic Law (Lev. ii, 9-12), the species of fish 

 permitted to be used for food are distinguished by having 

 scales and fins ; while those without scales were held to 

 be unclean, and therefore not useable. The knowledge 

 of the different kinds of fish among the Jews was com- 

 paratively limited. They had in their sojourn in Egypt 

 partaken of those of the Nile ; then of those found in 

 the Lake of Tiberias, and in the tributaries of the 



