Carp and Tench. 



THE FOURTH DAY. 



(Continued.) 



CHAPTER IX. 



OBSERVATIONS OF THE CARP, WITH DIRECTIONS HOW TO FISH FOR HIST. 



Pise. The Carp is the queen of rivers : a stately, a good, 

 and a very subtle fish, that was not at first bred, nor hath 

 been long, in England, but is now naturalised. It is said, they 

 were brought hither by one Mr. Mascal, a gentleman that 

 then lived at Plumsted in Sussex, a county J that abounds 

 more with this fish than any in this nation. 



You may remember that I told you, Gesner says, there 

 are no pikes in Spain ; and doubtless, there was a time, 



1 For proof of this fact, we have the testimony of the author of the 

 "Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line," Lond. 1590, mentioned before 

 who, though the initials only of his name are given in the title, appears to 

 have been Leonard Mascall, the translator of a book of " Planting 

 and Graffing," 4to, 1589, 1599, and the author of a book "On Cattel," 

 4to, 1596. 



