APPENDIX. 



THE substance of the following pages, which could 

 not with propriety be introduced in the " Recollec- 

 tions/' will be found to be generally illustrative 

 of subjects there incidentally alluded to. 



ANGLING IN THE OLDEN TIME. 



As there is not a chapter " De hamis antiquorum," 

 in the Thesaurus of either Grrevius or Gronovius ; 

 as Beckman, it is believed, has not treated on the 

 invention and history of fishing hooks ; and since 

 all that is to be gathered on this subject from Cru- 

 deii's Concordance a mine from which a certain class 

 of profound antiquaries obtain their ore at an easy rate, 

 with the credit of great learning and deep research 

 has been so often served up to the public, that you 

 may meet with an angler who does not recollect 

 whether the communion table stands at the east or 

 west end of a church, and who yet can refer to each 

 chapter and verse in the Bible wherein fishing 

 hooks are mentioned ; it becomes a difficult matter 

 to pick up a single new fact relating to the /woks 

 of the ancients, though a goodly quarto on certain 

 articles cognate with their hooks -and- eyes " De 

 fibulis" does honour to the diligence and research 

 of its author. It is, however, to be hoped that some 



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