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there runs a crooked line of points, one on eachfcale, as in Tab* 

 10. Fig. 8. The Fifies moftlike it of any defcribed, are the Bol- 

 lerws or Bordeliere, and the Phoxini, Rofe or Roftere of Rondele- 

 tim % % but that they cannot be thefame is plain from hence, in that 

 the Bordeliere is confeft to have no teeth, whereas the Finfcalehas 

 teeth as large as a Roach ; and the Phoxini never to be found 

 without (pawn , or to exceed half a foot in length, whereas I have 

 feen Finfcales, even in time of year when one might well have 

 expected it, without any (pawn ; and fome of them (particularly 

 the defcribed one, Fig. 8.) from the mouth to the fork, of the 

 tail a foot long, and four inches and a half in depth, befide many 

 other differences that might alfo be brought. 



30. Which is all I have met with extraordinary amongft the 

 fquamous kind of Fifb, but that there is a fort of Chub peculiar 

 to the Evehlode, fome fay exceeding, all equalling the Pearch or 

 Tench in goodnefs. And that at Lillingflon-Lovell, about fix 

 years fince were taken two Salmons, one fomwhat above, theo- 

 ther fomwhat under a yard in length, in a fmall brook, (a branch 

 of the Oufe) that a man may ftep over, little lefs (as the river 

 runs) than two hundred miles from the Sea. How thefe Salmon* 

 fhould come up fo high, has been much wondered at by fome, 

 fince fo many Mills and Loch ftand in the way on this Rivulet to 

 hinder them : but to fuch as have either feen, or but read of the 

 Salmon-leap at Kilgarran in Pembroke-fiire h , or at JVajferfal in the 

 Rhine, which I fuppofe is much greater, and that they run up that 

 river above five hundred miles to the Lake of Zugh in Switzer- 

 land 1 , perhaps it may not appear fo ftrange ; efpecially if it be 

 alfo confidered, that our Mills and Locks have mod of them back, 

 fir earns and lajhers to carry off* the water when it is too plentiful, 

 over which the leap is but very inconfiderable. 



3 1 . I have met with alfo fomwhat remarkable of our frefi wa- 

 ter fiell- fijh, and particularly of a fort ofGammarut, or Crey-fifl, 

 found in 5V/or;/ftream,that do's not boil to a briskred colour, but 

 at beft of a dirty yellowifi red, which I fuppofe muft be attributed 

 to the badnefsof the water, infected with ill qualities perhaps 

 by the Moor through which it pafTes, which is very agreeable to 

 one, of Cardans figns of good water: Vbi aqua bona (fays he) 



Rond.de Pipiius lacujtribus, cap. 8. & de flwviatilibus>cap. 1%. h Camden in Vembr. & Cardigan. 

 1 Mr. Rays Objervat. Topograph. &c.p. 430. 



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