CONTENTS. 



Chapter I. 



Ancient and Modebn Fishing. — Kshing, craft of, older tliaii 

 angling — love of, extinct in modern Eome — England the 

 country for — ^writers in praise of 1 



Chapter II. 



Fishing-tackle of Ancients — rods, lines, hooks — different 

 modes of fishing adopted by — fly-fishing — trawhng — bottom- 

 fishing — poisoned pastes — abnormal procedures for taking cer- 

 tain fish — ancient nets 15 



Chapter III. 



Vitaeia — very ancient inventions. — Roman stews, fresh and 

 salt — expensive to proprietors — ColnmeUa's directions for the 

 construction, stocking, and maintaining of. — ' Nomenclators,' 

 who. — Selfishness of amateurs. — Fish attachments. — Modern 

 vivaria near Naples. — Vivaria now generally obsolete. — An- 

 cient introduction of spawn into rivers — revived by Gehin 

 and Kemy 33 



Chapter IV. 



Ancient Estimation or Fish — favourite species — honours 

 paid to — fish-eating (opsophagy) universal — fish-eaters (opso- 

 phagists) of two kinds — anecdotes of some — ^pubhc taste for fish 

 capricious — national peculiarities in — ancient modes of dress- 

 ing fish — fish en pwpillottes (papyrus paper) — hatterie de 

 cuisine .......... 49 



Chapter V. 



Fish SArcES — varieties — praise of. — Garum — ingredients com- 

 posing — high price of — general taste for. — Alec — ^identical 

 with anchovy sauce — spurious articles formerly sold under the 



