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practical knowledge of sporting and fishing, however, is superior to 

 his attainments as a scientific naturalist. His chapters on salmon 

 and trout fishing teem with useful hints, while he is indisputably the 

 first authority of his time on the wary Salmo fcrox and its. capture 

 in the larger "Scotch lochs.] 



Columella (Lucius Junius Moderatus). De re rustica libri xii. 

 Dublin, 1732. 8.; Flensburg, 1795. 8. 



[ Generally published with the works of other ' Scriptores rei 

 rusticae.' The chief editions are Venice, 1472. fol. (the 'Prin- 

 ceps'; Bologna, 1494. fol.; by Aldus, 1514. 8vo.; by R. Stephens, 

 1543. 8vo.; by Gesner, Leipzig. 2 vol. 1735 & 1773. 4to.; and by 

 J. G. Schneider, Leipzig. 4 vol. 1794. 8v o- The last being the 

 most complete. There is a German translation bv M. C. Curtius : 

 Zwolf Biicher von der Landwirthschaft. Hamburg and Bremen, 

 1769. 8vo.] 



Of husbandly, in twelve books, and his book con- 

 cerning trees, translated into English... London, 1745. 4. 



[ Columella was born about the beginning of the Christian era 

 and sprang from a family belonging to Gades (Cadiz). Book iv. 

 cap. 1 6, De piscinis et piscibus alendis ; cap. 17, De positione 

 piscime. ] 



Comenius ( John Amos). Latinae linguae janua reserata. The 

 gate of the Latine tongue unlocked. London : William Du- 

 Gard, 1658. 8. 



[ The author, a protestant divine, born in Moravia in 1592, was a 

 very earnest grammarian and attempted several improvements in 

 education. This work, which was originally published at Lesna in 

 Poland, in 1631, under the title, "Janua Linguarum," is a sort of 

 encyclopedic phrase-book, each of its 100 chapters, containing the 

 words used in a separate art, science, or trade, and explaining them 

 by means of the context. A previous edition, in Latin, English 

 and French, is dated, London, 1639 : 'The gate of tongues unlocked 

 and opened, or else a seminary or seed-plot of all tongues and 

 sciences. ' In dealing with the art of fishing, he says : 



"A Fisher laieth wait for fishes ; the greater ones swimming at 

 the top he striketh with a fish-spear ; the lesser ones swimming 

 against the stream he allureth with rushy bow-nets, sunk weels 

 (whereinto when they are once gotten they cannot get forth :) the 

 deeper ones he draweth out of the river with a purs-net or tramel : 

 out of a lake with a sweep-net and drags ( which sinck by reason of 

 the plumets hanged at the bottom, and flot by reason of the corks 

 on the top ; but they have a different wideness of the mashes ac- 

 cording to the bigness of the fishes :) part of that which is catched 

 he selleth ; part he putteth up in repositories, from whence when 

 there is need hee taketh them out with a ware-net : part he picketh 

 for salt fish. An Angler fisheth with a hook whereon having put a 

 bait, whatsoever fish being allured, biteth at it, hee is taken."] 



Competenz-Spharen. Die Competenz-Spharen...und der 

 Gesetzentwurf betreffend den Schutz und die Ausubung der 

 Fischerei. Wien, 1876. 8. 



