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or the meltinjT of the snows, whenever I 

 have been at Munich ; but I have seen in the 

 fish-market at Munich very large huchos. 

 Late in the autumn, or in early spring, this 

 river must be an interesting one to fish in, 

 as the sckill^ or jierca lucio perca, and three 

 other species of perca are found in it — the 

 zingel, the apron, and the perca schratz — 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 Da- 

 nube. The schill is found likewise in the 

 Sprey and in the Hungarian lakes, and, ac- 

 cording to Bloch, the zingel in the Rhone. 



PoiET. — I should like extremely to fish in 

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

 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 

 — catching a fish, procuring good food for 

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