102 .r/f>^BRITI$H ANGLER. P.ll. 



Air, he will grow not only to be of a great 

 Size, but extremely fat. He is very broad, 

 has a forked Tail, and his Scales are fet in 

 beautiful Order. He hath large Eyes, and a 

 narrow fucking Mouth, with two Sets of 

 Teeth, and a Lozenge-like Bone, to help his 

 Grinding, The Melter is obferved to havg 

 two large Melts, and the Female two large 

 Bags of Spawn. 



The French efleem this Fifh highly, and 

 have this Proverb concerning him, That he 

 who hath Breams in his Pond, is able to lid his 

 Friend welcome. The beil Part of a Bream is 

 his Belly and Head. 



Some fay, that Breams and Roaches will 

 mix their Eggs and Melt together, whence 

 there is in many Places a Ballard Breed of 

 Breams^ that never come to be either large or 

 good, but very numerous. The Bream how- 

 ever is very fcarce in the Rivers within twenty 

 Miles o^ London, 



Pcifte made of brown Bread and Honey, 

 GenlleSy or the young Brood of fVafps, (which 

 are not unlike Genllesjand fhould be hardened 

 in an Oven, or dried on a Tile before the 

 Fire, to make them tough, are good Baits for 

 the Breafn, There is alfo at the Root of 

 Docks, or Rufhes in watery Places, a IVorm 

 not unlike a Maggot, at which both Brca?n 

 and Tench will bite freely. Or the Bream will 

 bite at a GraJ shopper with the Legs cropt off, 

 in yuned,x\d July ; or at feveral Flies under 

 Water, which may be found on Flags that 



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