CHAPTER VII. 
OP THE PIKE JACK, TICKEREL OR MUSCALINGA. 
This, with the Trout, may be 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 
lor double the price of a lamb ; but the lady writer on angling, 
Dame J ulianna Berners, who lived and wrote some time be- 
fore the aboveinentioned year, (149C,) gives the following in- 
structions fur taking him, which rather tends to a different con- 
clusion as to the period in which they were brought to that 
country. “ Take a codlynge hoke; and take a roclie, or a 
fresshe heeryng; and a wyre with an hole in the ende, and put 
it in ut the mouth and out at the taylle, down by the ridge of 
the fresshe heeryng ; and thenne put the lino of your hoke in 
after, and draw the hoke into the cheke of the fresshe lieer- 
yug; then put a plumbe of ledo upon your line a yerdo long© 
