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able for their quantity of curd : those that run 

 up the rivers in Russia from the White Sea 

 are said to be fatter and better, than those 

 caught in the streams which run into the 

 Baltic. 



Orn. — I agree with Physicus in his praise 

 of the char : w^e are indebted to you for an 

 excellent entertainment. 



Hal. — At Lintz, on the Danube, I could 

 have given you a fish dinner of a different 

 description, w^hich you might have liked as a 

 variety. The four kinds of perch, the spiegel 

 carpfen^ and the siluris glanis ; all good fish, 

 and which I am sorry we have not in Eng- 

 land, where I doubt not they might be easily 

 naturalized, and they would form an admir- 

 able addition to the table in inland counties. 

 Since England has become Protestant, the 

 cultivation of fresh water fish has been much 

 neglected. The burbot, or lotte, which al- 

 ready exists in some of the streams tributary 

 to the Trent, and which is a most admirable 

 fish, might be diffused without much difficulty; 

 and nothing could be more easy than to na- 

 turalize the spiegel carpfen and siluris ; and 



