Word: fluviaticum
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...reached his destination, Ang and F. Ang means Angling and F stands for Daniel B. Fearing, a former mayor of Newport who donated, in 1915, several thousand titles having to do with fish and fishing. "What a gold mine," thought Gridley, "everything is here. The sixteenth-century Ius Fluviaticum bound luxuriously in vellum with metal clasps and that Mexican masterwork, Piscicultura in Agua Dulce. To say nothing of Tricks That Take Fish and all fifteen editions of British Rural Sports." On a lower shelf he noticed two copies of Fish I Have Known by Arthur H. Beavan, author of Birds...
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