CHAPTER X. 



OBSERVATIONS OF THE BREAM, AND DIRECTIONS 

 TO CATCH HIM. 



pISCA TOR. The bream being at a full growth is 

 a large and stately fish. He will breed both in 

 rivers and ponds ; but loves best to live in ponds, 

 and where, if he likes the water and air, he will 

 grow not only to be very large, but as fat as a hog. 

 He is by Gesner taken to be more pleasant or 

 sweet than wholesome : this fish is long in grow- 

 ing, but breeds exceedingly in a water that pleases 

 him ; yea, in many ponds so fast as to over-store 

 them and starve the other fish. 



He is very broad, with a forked tail, and his 

 scales set in excellent order : he hath large eyes, 

 and a narrow sucking mouth ; he hath two sets of 

 teeth, and a lozenge-like bone, a bone to help his 

 grinding. The melter is observed to have two 

 large melts, and the female two large bags of eggs 

 or spawn. 



Gesner reports that in Poland a certain and a 

 great number of large breams were put into a 

 pond, which in the next following winter were 

 frozen up into one entire ice, and not one drop of 



