CHAP. XIX.] 



THE FIFTH DAY. 



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it by telling you, that at the mouth of some of these rivers 

 of our's, herrings are so plentiful, as namely, near to 

 Yarmouth in Norfolk, and in the west-country, pilchers so 

 very plentiful, as you will wonder to read what our learned 

 Camden relates of them in his " Britannia," p. 178, 186. 



"Well, scholar, I will stop here, and tell you what by 

 reading and conference I have observed concerning fish- 

 ponds. 



at Delft in Holland, on April 10th, 1583. He was at first an advocate, and 

 about 1613 became Grand-Pensionary of Holland ; but, in 1618, for adhering 

 to the doctrines of Arminius, he was confined for nine months in the castle 

 at the Hague. He died at Rostock in Pomerania, August 28th, 1645. 

 His works were very numerous ; that alluded to in the text is ' ' Sophom- 

 paneas, or Joseph," a tragedy, translated with annotations by Francis 

 (Mdsmith, Esq. Lond., n. d. (1634) 8vo. The passage will be found at pages 

 29, etc. in the speech of the Chorus, and in the notes to the third Act, 

 pages 84, etc. The title of the tragedy, " Sophompaneas, " signified, in the 

 Egyptian language, the Saviour of the World ; and was given to Joseph, 

 Pharoah's minister, because he delivered so many nations from destruction 

 by famine. ED. 



