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The natives of the part of the Russian empire, near 

 the Volga use the fish glue medicinally, and in some 

 i nstances it appears very successfully. A case is given 

 by Dr. Pallas, in his travels, of a woman passing 

 through a wood with her husband, and being taken 

 in labour ; the child was born, and by the adminis 

 tration of fish glue, so restorative were its effects, 

 that she was enabled to proceed safely on her journey 

 in a very short space of time. 



Few persons of any age, station, or calling, or even 

 sex, can be found who do not feel great gratification 

 in seeing fish caught, either by angling or by nets, 

 although they themselves are not anglers, or do not 

 take an active part in the sport. Upon one occasion, 

 many years ago, when I was a boy, the waters of the 

 Wey Navigation were about being let off into the 

 Thames, in order to perform some repairs ; when Lord 

 Viscount Milsington, the eldest son of the Earl of 

 Portmore, part proprietor of the navigation, most of 

 the land bounding the brook, and landlord of our 

 mill, some of his servants, my father, myself, and six 

 of our workmen, were congregated together about 

 three o'clock on a fine summer's morning, to net the 

 Bourne Brook, near Weybridge Bridge, in which it 

 was supposed some fish which had escaped from Vir 

 ginia Water, when part of the cascade gave way some 

 years before, had found a home. Nets were placed 



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