100 FOURTEENTH TO THE 



for the benefit of others, London. A few years before 

 this date we find a work on fish, published by Casper 

 Schwenkfeld, called Tkerio Tropheum Silesice, in which 

 there is much curious research and speculation on the 

 habits, medical properties, and instincts of all the known 

 classes of fish. There was likewise another work about 

 the same period, printed at Leipsic, on the different 

 modes of angling for fish of all kinds. This is but a 

 small work, of about thirty octavo pages. 



From this period, and for some time afterwards, the 

 literature of angling was, like the other branches of know- 

 ledge and art, at a very low ebb. There can be no doubt, 

 however, that angling was followed in these times as a 

 rural amusement, and that it formed a topic of eulogy and 

 recommendation to the few of those favoured spirits who 

 then held a pen in their hands, and committed their 

 thoughts to paper. We are informed, from the records of 

 early French literature, that in most of the large libraries 

 in France, Italy, and Spain, there are manuscript articles 

 on Fishing, of various remote dates, but of a somewhat 

 fugitive and puerile cast. 



The Piscatory Eclogues of Sanazarius are well known. 

 They were republished by Pope, in his collection of 

 Poemata Italarum. These effusions have been the topic 

 of critical controversy among angling writers. Mr. Draper 

 and Mr. Jones think highly of them, and maintain that 

 their author gained more reputation by them than from 

 all his other works together. Moses Browne entertains a 



