pils, 'to whom they imparted their secrets. Hawkins. In e English translation of the Scriptures, the disciples of the Prophets are called "the Sons of the Prophets," with the same signification.

Page 310. Tom Coriate.

The son of the Rev. George Coriate, born at Odcombe in Somersetshire, in 1577. He was educated at Westminster School, and at Gloucester Hall, Oxford; after which, he went into the family of Henry Prince of Wales. He travelled almost all over Europe on foot, and in that tour walked nine hundred miles with one pair of shoes, which he got mended at Zurich. Afterwards he visited Turkey, Persia, and the Great Mogul's dominions; proceeding in so frugal a manner that, as he tells his mother in a letter, in his ten months' travel between Aleppo and the Mogul's Court, he spent but three pounds sterling, living reasonably well for about twopence sterling a day! He was a redoubted champion for the Christian religion, against the Mahometans and Pagans; in the defence whereof he sometimes risked his life. He died of the flux, occasioned by drinking sack at Surat in 1617; having, in 1611, published his Travels in a quarto volume, which he called his Crudities; in which, on the reverse of b. I. in "a Character of the Author," is the passage alluded to in the text. Hawkins.

Page 310. What have we here, a church?

This passage alludes to the Church at Alstonefield, a Parish in the North Division of the Hundred of Totmanslow, and County of Stafford; it is dedicated to St. Peter, and stands five miles north-northwest from Ashborn.

Page 316. Now you are come to the door.

This celebrated Fishing-House, views of which are given at pages 319 and 321, is formed of stone, and the room within is a cube of fifteen feet, paved with black and white marble, having in the centre a square black marble table. The roof, which is triangular in shape, terminates in a square stone sun-dial, surmounted by a globe and a vane. It was originally wainscoted with walls of carved panels and divisions, in the larger spaces of which were painted some of the most

interesting scenes in the vicinity of the building; whilst the smaller ones were occupied with groups of fishing-tackle. In the right-hand corner stood a large beaufet with foldingdoors, on which were painted the portraits of Walton and Cotton attended by a servant-boy; and beneath it was a closet, having a Trout and a Grayling delineated upon the door. Such was the original appearance of the FishingHouse, as collected from a description given by Mr. White of Crickhowel to Sir John Hawkins, in 1784; although it was then considerably decayed, especially in the wainscoting and the paintings. To this, the following account of its present state, written from actual observation by W. H. Pepys, Esq., F. R. S., etc., will form an appropriate and an interesting counterpart. The visit which it details was made by a party composed of several eminent characters equally distinguished in Science and the Fine Arts.

"It was in the month of April, 1811, that I visited the celebrated Fishing-House of Cotton and Walton. I left Ashbourne about nine o'clock in the morning, accompanied by several Brothers of the Angle: we took the Buxton road for about six miles, and, turning through a gate to the left, soon descended into the valley of the Dove, and continued along the banks of the river about three miles farther, when we arrived at Beresford Hall. The Fishing-House is situated on a small peninsula, round which the river flows, and was then nearly enveloped with trees. It has been a small, neat stone building, covered with stone slates, or tiles, but is now going fast to decay: the stone steps by which you entered the door are nearly destroyed. It is of a quadrangular form, having a door and two windows in the front, and one larger window on each of the other three sides. The door was secured on the outside by a strong staple; but the bars and casements of the windows being gone, an easy entrance was obtained. The marble floor, as described by White in 1784, had been removed: only one of the pedestals upon which the table was formerly placed was standing, and that much deteriorated. On the left side was the fireplace, the mantlepiece and sides of which were in a good state. The chimney

and recess for the stove were so exactly on the Rumford plan, that one might have supposed he had lived in the time when it was erected. On the right-hand side of the room is an angular excavation or small cellar, over which the cupboard, or beaufet, formerly stood. The wainscoat of the room is wanting, the ceiling is broken, and part of the stonetiling admits both light and water. Upon examining the small cellar, we found the other pedestal which supported the marble table; and against the door on the inside, three large fragments of the table itself, which were of the Black Dove-Dale Marble, bevelled on the edges, and had been well polished. The inscription over the door, and the cipher of Walton and Cotton in the key-stone, were very legible."

Page 336. As Damatas says by his man Dorus.

See Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, No. 40 in the foregoing list, lib. I. p. 70, of that volume. Browne.

Page 338. He was a lovely fish, and turned up a side like a salmon.

There is but little doubt that the author of Guy Mannering had these words in his mind, when he wrote the description of the Salmon-hunt near Charlies-hope; since he makes one of the characters say, "Come here, Sir! Come here, Sir! look at this ane! look at this ane! he turns up a side like a Sow." Edit. Edinb. 1815, vol. ii. chap. v. p. 65. Page 345. Isabella-colored.

A species of whitish-yellow, or buff-color somewhat soiled. Altieri. The name of this tint is said to have originated in the following circumstance. The Archduke Albert, who had married the Infanta Isabella, daughter of Philip II., King of Spain, with whom he had the Low Countries in dowry, in the year 1602, having determined to lay siege to Ostend, then in the possession of the Protestants, the Princess, who attended him in his expedition, made a vow, that until it was captured she would never change her garments. It was, however, three years before the city was reduced; and in that time the Infanta's linen had acquired the hue above mentioned. Hawkins.

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