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place, and then pursued my walk. It so happened 

 that a few minutes before my reaching the extreme 

 point of the beach, a couple of fishermen had made 

 one haul of a " draw-net," but finding little for their 

 pains, had left the beach, and rowed back to 

 Gorleston. The incoming tide was already flinging 

 the spray of the waves over a heap of refuse shaken 

 from the net. Seeing a small Herring or two kick- 

 ing about on the weed, I overhauled it with my 

 stick, finding, still struggling and strong alive, 

 several young Herrings of from to 4 inches 

 in length, three or four Viviparous Blennies 

 (Zoarces viviparus), three Three -spined Stickle- 

 backs, and some tiny Plaice. Suddenly a small, 

 herring-like fish, with some emerald spots along its 

 abdomen, caught my eye, and I just contrived to 

 save it from being washed away. Placing it in a 

 handful of seaweed, I tied it in the corner of my 

 handkerchief, eventually sending it to Norwich to 

 Mr. Southwell, who satisfactorily identified it. The 

 fish was 1 J inch long and fths of an inch deep. Its 

 chocolate -coloured back and extremely elongated 

 lower jaw made a conspicuous contrast when laid 

 beside a Herring its own size. Mr. Southwell 

 wrote 



