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CHAPTER XI. 



OBSERVATIONS OF THE TENCH, AND ADVICE HOW 

 TO ANGLE FOR HIM. 



pISCATOR. The tench, the physician of 

 fishes, is observed to love ponds better than 

 rivers, and to love pits better than either. Yet 

 Camden observes there is a river in Dorsetshire 

 that abounds with tenches, but doubtless they re- 

 tire to the most deep and quiet places in it. 



This fish hath very large fins, very small and 

 smooth scales, a red circle about his eyes, which 

 are big and of a gold color, and from either angle 

 of his mouth there hangs down a little barb. In 

 every tench's head there are two little stones, 

 which foreign physicians make great use of ; but 

 he is not commended for wholesome meat, though 

 there be very much use made of them for outward 

 applications. Rondeletius says that at his being 

 at Rome he saw a great cure done by applying a 

 tench to the feet of a very sick man. This, he says, 

 was done after an unusual manner by certain Jews. 

 And it is observed that many of those people 

 have many secrets yet unknown to Christians, 



