APPENDIX. 



Extracts from the Complete Angler of Izaak 

 Walton, containing Observations on the Perch 

 and Directions how to fish for him. With his 

 Short Discourse, hy way of Postscript, touching 

 the Laws of Angling. 



Piscator. — The Perch is a very good and a very- 

 bold biting fish. He is one of the fishes of prey, 

 that like the pike and trout, carries his teeth in his 

 mouth, which is very large : and he dare venture 

 to kill and devour several other kinds of fish. 

 He has a hooked or hog back, which is armed 

 with sharp and stiff bristles, and all his skin armed 

 or covered over with thick dry hard scales, and 

 hath, which few other fish have, two fins on his 

 back. He is so bold, that he will invade one of 

 his own kind, which the pike will not do so wil- 

 lingly ; and you may therefore easily Believe him 

 to be a bold biter. 



