Merchant of Venice, Act iv. Sc. 1.
[149.] In China, at the present day, an allied species, Ph. sinensis, is reared and trained to fish.
[150.] This diary is amongst the additional MSS. in the British Museum. It is bound in soft parchment, and entered in the catalogue as “Wurmser, H. J.: Travels with Louis, Count (?) of Wurtemberg, 20,001.”
[151.] The presence of the King at Thetford at this date, as on other occasions, is recorded in the “Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities of King James the First,” as published in four volumes by John Nichols, F.S.A., in 1828.
[152.] The above extracts were communicated by Mr. Salvin to Mr. Frank Buckland’s journal, Land and Water, in 1867, in a series of articles on “Cormorant Fishing.”
Some interesting chapters on the subject will be found at the end of Freeman and Salvin’s “Falconry; its Claims, History, and Practice.” 8vo, 1859.
[153.] Sidney Bere, in Land and Water, April 20, 1867.
[154.] In “Chambers’s Journal” for 1859, will be found an interesting article upon the subject, entitled “The King and his Cormorants.”
[155.] Mr. Salvin, to whom we have before referred, and Mr. E. C. Newcome, of Feltwell Hall, Norfolk, still keep and use trained cormorants; as, through the kindness of the former, we have had pleasant opportunities of attesting.
[156.] Geck—a laughing-stock. According to Capel, from the Italian ghezzo. Dr. Jamieson, however, derives it from the Teutonic geck, jocus.