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Mackay (Charles). The Thames and its tributaries; 



or rambles among the rivers. 2 vol. London, Bentley, 1840. 

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Murray (John Fisher). A picturesque tour of the 

 river Thames... Illustrated with upwards of one hundred... 

 wood engravings, etc. 2 vol. London, 1845. 8.; [with new 

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The river Thames from Oxford to the sea. 1859. 8. 

 Rules, orders and ordinances, to commence and take 



place from the 1st day of November 1785... for the governing 

 ...of all persons who shall fish or dredge on the river of 

 Thames, and also in the waters of Medway. London ; printed 

 by Henry Fenwick. (1785.) pp. 38. 8.; London, 1827. 8. 



Rules, orders and ordinances for the fisheries in 



Thames and Medway. London : printed by Arthur Taylor, 



1835, 1847 & 1848. pp. 36. 12. 



The blue book of the Thames Angling Preservation 



Society, containing the annual report, and a large amount of 

 useful information to the Thames angler. London, 1881. 

 pp.45. 1 6. 



[ This society resulted from a meeting, held in 1838 at Hampton, 

 by a few gentlemen of the neighbourhood, upon whom the neces- 

 sity of taking steps to suppress "the incessant poaching and 

 destruction of the young brood and spawn," had been forced, by 

 the deterioration of the fishing in the river. Reports of the 

 Society's successful work have been issued each year, and to this 

 43rd issue is appended some "useful information," comprising the 

 rules of the Society, extracts from the bye-laws of the Thames, a 

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Theakston ( Michael). See LIST. A list of natural flies, etc. 



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Theocritus. The Idylliums of Theocritus translated from the 

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[ "The fishermen," Idyll xxi, contains 67 lines and has for its sub- 

 ject a dream of catching "a golden fish, which an old man relates to 

 his comrade. It is chiefly notable for the enumeration of the fishing 

 implements in the hands of two poor Syracusan fishermen. The 

 poetical translators take great liberties with this list, Mr. Calverley, 

 being the least and Fawkes the most accurate. In plain prose the 

 "weapons of their trade" were : ''wicker baskets, rods, hooks, baits 

 covered with seaweed, lines of horse hair, and weels and wicker- 

 work mazes, cords, and oars and an old boat on props," (11. 9-12), 

 Theocritus, who was a native of Sicily and at the height of his repu- 

 tation B.C. 277, brought pastoral poetry to its highest perfection. 

 The Greek editions of his writings are very numerous, the most 



