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tackling to the water-side, about three or four 

 o'clock in the morning; " but not too near, for 

 they have a cunning sentinel, and are watchful 

 themselves too." The following is from Daniel's 

 account of a day's fishing in Essex. " The weather 

 was cloudy, and the wind brisk : there were seven 

 rods used by the party, and very frequently were 

 there biters at them all at the same time. When a 

 fish was hooked, and played at the top, or near the 

 surface of the water, numbers were seen to follow 

 him, and as soon as the hooks were fresh baited, 

 were alike greedily taken : they averaged at least 

 two pounds a fish ; and of these, from six in the 

 morning till dusk in the evening, some hundred- 

 Weights were taken. 



(Sp. 103.) A. hlicca. White Bream, or Bream- 

 flat, is a much smaller fish than the preceding, 

 rarely exceeding ten or twelve inches. The upper 

 parts of the body are silvery bluish white, without 

 any of the golden lustre observable in the last spe- 

 cies ; the iris is silvery white tinged with pink. 

 This species, which in its tastes and habits resembles 

 the Carp-bream, has been long.known on the Con- 

 tinent, where it is very common, as far north as the 

 lakes of Sweden ; and it has recently been detected 

 in several localities in England ; first, by Mr. Shep- 

 herd, in the Trent, as stated in the 14th vol. of the 

 Linnean Transactions ; next by Mr. Jenyns, as very 

 abundant, in the Cam ; and lastly by Mr. Lubbock, 

 who has informed Mr. Yarrell that it is occasionally 

 met with in some of the broads and rivers in Nor- 



