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436 MANUFACTURE AND USE OF
APPENDIX D.
ON NETTING.
MANUFACTURE AND USE OF XETS BY THE AXCIEXTS ILLUSTEATIONS
OF THE SCRIPTURES, ETC.
Nets were made of Flax, Hemp, and Broom—General terms for nets—Nets used
for catching birds—Mode of snaring—Hunting-nets—Method of hunting
Hunting-nets supported by forked stakes—Manner of fixing them—Purse-net
or tunnel-net—Homers testimony—Nets used by the Persians in lion-hunting
—Hunting with nets practised by the ancient Eg}"ptians—Method of hunting
—Depth of nets for this purpose—Description of the purse-net— Road-net
Hallier—Dj"ed feathers used to scare the prey—Casting-net—Manner of throw-
ing by the Arabs
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— ;
Cjtus king of Persia—His fable of the piper and the fishes
—Fishing-nets—Casting-net used by the Apostles—Landing-net (S cap-net)
The Sean—Its length and depth—Modem use of the Sean—Method of fishing
with the Sean practised by the Arabians and ancient Eg%-ptians—Corks and
leads—Figurative apphcation of the Sean—Curious method of capturing an
enemy practised by the Persians—Nets used in India to catch tortoises—Bag-
nets eind smjill purse-nets—Novel scent-bag of Verres the Sicilian prsetor.
The raw materials, of which the ancients made nets, w^ere
flax, hemp*, and broomt. Flax was most commonly used ; so
that Jerome, when he is prescribing emplopnent for monks,
says, " Texantur et Una capiendis piscibust." The operation
of netting, as well as that of platting, was expressed by the
verb rXt-ctivj. The meshes were called m Latin maculcoW, in
Greek /Spox