CONNECTED WITH HERALDRY, ETC. 133 



The City of Venice has the emblems of fish on all its 

 public buildings, and even on the domestic furniture of its 

 inhabitants. Specimens of the latter are often found in 

 London, among the dealers of old and carved materials of 

 household use. 



The city of Venice is described in Purchas's Pil- 



grames as, 



a r i c he towne of spicery : 



And of all other merchandise also, 

 And right well vitelet thereto j 

 And namely of fresche water fische, 

 Pike, eile, tench, carpe, Iwis. 



Vol. ii, 1625. 



On the subject of coins we have but very little infor- 

 mation to communicate. There is one very fine copper 

 coin, of the age of Augustus, bearing the mark of Carteia, 

 a town in Spain, on one side of which there is a well-defined 

 representation of a man angling with a rod and line, and 

 a fishing basket by his side. There is likewise a gold 

 coin, of the date of 1475, representing St. Peter in the 

 act of fishing. These two coins are in the British Museum. 

 There are two or three small pieces of money of a Venician 

 origin, on which similar piscatory figures are represented. 

 None of these, however, have fallen under our own personal 

 inspection. 



