PEOSE HALIEUTICS. 



CHAPTEE I. 

 ANCIENT AND MODERN FISHING. 



EUe ^tend ses filets, elle invente de nouveaux mayens de suc- 

 ces, elle s'attaclie un plus grand nombre d'hommes; elle penfetre 

 dans les profondeurs des abimes, elle arraohe aux angles les plus 

 secrets, eUe poursuit jusqu'aux extremites du globe les objets de 

 sa constante recherche. — LacSpkde. 



Tills H being more distinguished for the size of their 

 -■- heads than for the amount of brains lodged in them,* 

 and aflFording consequently an easier capture than either 

 beasts or birds, fell early victims to the crafts and as- 

 saults of their arch-enemy, man. Thus, even before 

 the Babylonian captivity, as we read in Habakkuk, he 

 ' took them with the angle, catched them with the net, 

 and gathered them in his drag,'t and the following ver- 

 sion of a passage from another prophet, alludes to yet 

 more subtle machinations, and a larger array of engines 

 employed against them: — 



* The proportionate weight of brain to body in the shark is as 

 one to two thousand five hundred; in the stupid thunny, only as 

 one to three thousand seven hundred; and even in the compa- 

 ratively well-endowed pike, but as one to one thousand three 

 hundred. 



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