CHAPTER VII. 



OP THE PIKE JACK, PICKEREL OR MUSCALINGA. 



THIS, with the Trout, maybe considered the universal fish of 

 the world. It appears to inhabit the inland waters of all 

 northern countries. We read of them as far back as the 

 days of ancient Rome ; and they have been known in Ger- 

 many and Poland from time immemorial. A late writer on 

 Natural History in England, says that they were introduced 

 into that country in the year 1537, and that they were sold 

 for double the price of a lamb ; but the lady writer on angling, 

 Dame Julianna Berners, who lived and wrote some time be- 

 fore the abovementioned year, (1496,) gives the following in- 

 structions for taking him, which rather tends to a different con 

 elusion as to the period in which they were brought to that 

 country. " Take a codlynge hoke; and take a roche, or a 

 fresshe heeryng ; and a wyre with an hole in the ende, and put 

 it in at the mouth and out at the taylle, down by the ridge of 

 the fresshe heeryng ; and thenne put the Hue of your hoke in 

 after, and draw the hoke into the cheke of the fresshe heer 

 yng; then put a plumbe of lede upon your line a yerde longe 



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