APPENDIX 



[Mr. E. Goble, of Farebani, has kindly allowed me to 

 make use of the following quaint notes concerning the 

 Arle, compiled some thirty years or so since by 

 a keen old angler, who, sad to relate, ended his 

 life in a Ham})shire workhouse.] 



'' Fifty years' observations of the fishes now and here- 

 before inhabiting the New River, as it was and is called, 

 at Titchfield from the Flood Hatches (where it empties 

 into the sea) up to the flour mill at Titchfield, showing 

 the different sorts of food they live on and many other 

 particulars which, it is presumed, are unknown to the 

 gentlemen comprising the Fishing Club, and also as 

 regards the river named the Old, nearly as far as Funtley 

 flour mill downwards to the New Piridge at the lower 

 part of the Haven near Hill Head. It may be as well 

 to observe that the author of these and the following 

 lines had annually stake nets during the above period 

 for thirty years for the purpose of catching fishes con- 

 tained in Southampton Water, shifting them from time to 

 time from the latter end of February until the latter end 

 of August, when he used to take them up until the next 

 year. 



"The reader will be kind enough to excuse the manner 

 in which these hues are written, as the author apparently 

 digresses from the subject, but as long as he makes 

 himself clearly understood, that he deems sufficient for 

 the purpose he aims at. Both rivers contain salmon, 

 salmon-peel,^ trouts, eels, grey mullet, bass (the two last 



1 Called salmon when their weight is lo lbs. ; under that, salmon- 

 peel, or, as some call them, salmon-smelts. 



