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tench and perch, they are httle esteemed, and, consequently, 

 little sought after. 



A large lamprey was killed in Lug many years ago ; but this 

 fish is usually very small, not exceeding 10 inches in length. 



The millei-'s-thumb is abundant, particularly in the shal- 

 low streams with stony bottoms; the loche, minnow, and 

 stickleback occur in the same situations. The stickleback is 

 said never to have been seen in Arro ; but this seems very unac- 

 countable, and I am inclined to doubt the accuracy of the 

 statement. 



Gudgeon occur in Lug, but much more frequently in the 

 canal. The canal also produces pike, carp, tench, perch, 

 roach, dace, eels, minnow, loche, and miller's-thumb. 



The fishes of Leominster are enumerated. 



preface to tfje ^econD ^mt^. 



It is known to every book-writer, that the preface is the 

 very end of his labours. Still, such is the mendaciousness of 

 man, that he always places it at the beginning — the author of 

 Tristram Shandy excepted, who veraciously places it where he 

 wrote it — in the middle. I think it is rather new to put the 

 preface at the end. 



The reader, the courteous and gentle reader, of the Ento- 

 mological Magazine, has observed divers wood-cuts, having 

 no apparent connexion with the text : thus, a public-house 

 was made to illustrate " Bowerbank on the Circulation of the 

 Blood ;" and a Quaker's meeting-house embellished " Douglas' 

 Random Thoughts." Now, although the sapients may attempt 

 to prove, that public-houses cause a circulation of the blood, 

 and that Quakers' meeting-houses are places for random 

 thoughts, be it distinctly understood that no conclusions of the 

 kind were intended. Again, the residence of Thomas Rogers 

 is to be placed at the end of this article, whether convenient or 

 inconvenient, although that great man is yet in need of an in- 

 troduction to my readers ; moreover, in the next space an in- 

 tended representation of the Needles, as seen from Alum Bay, 

 is to be introduced. All these were designed bv the Insect- 



