Jician of fiflies, and the opinion is handed 

 down to the prefent day, of a fuppofed 

 " natural balfam which he carries about 

 c; him, that will cure both himfelf and 

 " others."* I cannot pcrfuadc myfelf to 

 give fuch an opinion a ferious thought, 

 unlefs his commentators will either prove it 

 'by analyfis, or produce his diploma. Every 

 different fpecies being enemies to each 

 other, it cannot be fuppofed that a fifli fa 

 timid as the tench, would paffively admit 

 the approach of the pike, for even the 

 gregarious kinds will not endure a famili- 

 arity with ~each other at any time except 

 in the fpawning feafon. 



The tench fpawn in July, and are in. 

 feafon from Auguft to June. Mud be 

 angled for near the bottom, where they 

 bite freely at all the fmall baits that you 

 Avill find directed for pool-iifhing, 



TROUT. 



TRUTTA ; of the fpecies of malaccpte* 



rygii. A fifh well known in almoft every 



jivcr in Great Britain, Thofe that are 



u caught 



