Class IV. 



TENCH. 



359 



Tinea. Aufonius Mofella, 123. 

 Tinea. Jo-vius, 1 24. 

 Tinea, Tenca. Salwan, 90. 

 La Tanche. Be/on, 325. 

 Tinea. Rondel, jliwiat. 157. 



Gefner pifc, 984. 

 Schley, Slye. Scbcwvelds, 76. 

 Tench. WiL IctL 251, i?*« 



fyn.pfc. 117. 

 Cyprinus mucofus totus ni- 



grefcens, extremitate caudae 



sequali. Arted. fynon. 5. 

 Cyprinus pinna ani radiis 25, 



cauda integra, corpore mu- 



cofo, cirris 2. L/«. Jyft. 



526. Grono^v. Zoopb. No. 



328. 

 Suture, Linnare, Skomakare. 



Faun. Suec. No. 363. 

 Schleihe, Schlegen. Wulff Bo- 



rufs. No. 55. 



167. Tench. 



THE tench underwent the fame fate with the 

 barbel, in refpect to the .notice taken of it 

 by the early writers ; and even Aufonius y who firft 

 mentions it, treats it with fuch difrefpeel, as evin- 

 ces the great capricioufntfs of tafte -, for that fifh, 

 which at prefent is held in fuch good repute, was 

 in his days the repaft only of the Canaille. . 



Quis non et virides vulgi folatia Tineas 

 Norit ? 



It has been by fome called the Phyfician of the 

 fifh, and that the flime is fo healing, that the 

 wounded apply it as a {lyptic^ The ingenious 

 Mr. Diaper ', in his pif calory ecloges, fays, that 

 even the voracious pike will fpare the tench on 

 account of us healing powers : 



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