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Qet was shot across the course of the fish, and as each of 
tfie four or fiye boats came to the place their nets were 
joined to the former, so as to surround and enclose them as 
^^1 a pond, within which these fishes now remained confounded 
s^nd helpless, without attempting to move. It appears that in 
ffiis condition it was not difficult to warp them by the help 
of ropes to the land. The remarks before referred to, as 
illustrative of the same subject, are given in the following 
letters : — • 
“I enclose, for your perusal, an account of the scan, which 
f find placed in a copy of .Slschylus, among the notes on the 
Tunny fishery, “^schyli Persae,” v. 430. The poet there 
describes the Greeks as knocking the Persians on the head 
ivith pieces of the battered ships, as they fioundered about in 
the water, their ships being sunk or battered to pieces, — as 
they Would so many Tunnies enclosed in a scan. In the 
notes on the word Tunnies, the editor takes occasion to 
niention the manner in which the fish were enclosed under 
the direction of a huer, (Oviyyia-KOTTop,) who ascended a pro- 
niontory for the purpose, exactly as our Pilchard huer does; 
and he quotes passages from Theocritus and from Aristophanes 
nnd other authors in illustration. — See Bloomfield’s “jEschylus, 
“-Persffi,” notes, L. 430. He thinks that jEschylus was fond 
nf the sport. I will venture a remark, and act the annotator. 
It appears to me that the Greeks were not acquainted with 
the tuck-net: they dragged the net to the shore, and then 
knocked the Thunnies on the head, which were splashing 
nbout and endeavouring to escape. This would appear from 
the passage above quoted. The Apcjii^v’^Tpov was a simple 
casting-net. The Scriptures partly prove my remark, — ‘Like 
unto a net {^cuypvp — a scan,) which, when it was full, they 
drew to the shore.’ — Mathew, xiii, 47.” (I here beg to 
observe that the Scriptures more than partly prove the remark, 
for they make a clear distinction between two nets that were 
Used on the Lake of Galilee by the Apostles. In chapter iv, 
verse 18, Peter and Andrew are described as ^aWov^a<; 
^t^<i>L^pa-Tpov — throwing a casting-net or amphibleestron into the 
sea, for they were skilful in the use of it, being professed 
fishermen; but in chapter xiii, 47, the action of the Sayrivrj, 
Or scan, is difierently described as a-vv(vyar/ova-7j e«7rav|o? jevovi 
