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the fish-market at Munich, very large 

 huchos. And late in the autumn, or in early 

 spring, this river must be an interesting one 

 to fish in, as the schill, or perca lucio <perca, 

 and three other species of perca are found 

 in it — the zingil, the apron, and the perca 

 scharatz — all fish of prey, and excellent food. 

 I have eaten them, but never taken them; 

 they are rare in European rivers, though 

 not, like the hucho, peculiar to the tributary 

 streams of the Danube. The schill is found 

 likewise in the Sprey and in the Hungarian 

 lakes; and according to Block, the zingil in 

 the Rhone. 



Poiet. — I should like extremely to fish in 

 the Izar: it is, I think, a new kind of plea- 

 sure to take a new kind of fish, even though 

 it is not unknown to Natural Historians. 

 But the most exquisite kind of angling in 

 my opinion would be that of angling in a 

 river never fished in by Europeans before ; 

 and I can scarcely imagine sport of a higher 

 kind than that which involves a triple source 

 of pleasure — that of catching a fish, of pro- 

 curing good food for the table, and of making 



