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any trouble about the word of river fifh, when 

 they neglected the moil delicious kinds 5 all their 

 attention was directed towards thole of the fea: 

 the difficulty of procuring them feems to have 

 been the criterion of their value, as is ever the cafe 

 with effete luxury. 



The chub is a very coarfe ftfti and full of bones : 

 it frequents the deep holes of rivers, and during 

 fummer commonly lies on the furface, beneath the 

 fhade of fame tree or bufh. It is a very timid fifh, 

 finking to the bottom on the left alarm, even at 

 the palling of a fhadow, but they will foon refume 

 their fituation. It feeds on worms, caterpillars, 

 grafshoppers, beetles, and other coleopterous in- 

 fects that happen to fall into the water \ and it will 

 even feed on cray-fifh. This fifli will rife to a fly. 



This fifh takes its name from its head, not only 

 in our own, but in other languages : we call it 

 Chub, according to Skinner, from the old Englijh, 

 Cop, a heads the French, Tejiard-, the Italians, 

 Capitone. 



It does not grow to a large fize •, we have 

 known fome that weighed above five pounds, but 

 Salvianus fpeaks of others that were eight or nine 

 pounds in weight. 



The body is oblong, rather round, and of a 

 pretty equal thicknefs the greateft part of the way : 

 the fcales are large. 



The irides filvery ; the cheeks of the fame color : 

 the head and back of a deep dufky green : the 



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