20 THE PRACTICAL FISHERMAN. 



his quaint enumeration of them I shall not at this moment go. He 

 says : 



God quickened in the sea and in the rivers 



So many fishes of so many features, 



That in the waters we may see all creatures, 



Even all that in the earth are to be found, 



As if the world were in deep waters drowned ; 



For seas as well as skies have sun, moon, stars, 



As well as air, swallows, rooks, and stares ; 



As well as earth, vines, ro^es, nettles, melon*. 



Mushrooms, pinks, gilliflowers, and many millions 



Of other plants more rare, more strange than these 



As very fishes living in the seas ; 



As also rams, calves, horses, hares and hogs, 



Wolves, urchins, lions, elephants, and dogs ; 



Yea, men ar d maids, and which I mo*t admire, 



The mitred bishop and the cowled friar, 



Of which examples but a few years since 



Were shown the Norway and Polonian prince. 



Of course this curious old devout is remarkably figurative, and the 

 excerpt from his " Contemplation" is only introduced as a curiosity; 

 nevertheless, however, the similitudes he traces are not all in vain, and 

 even in fresh water some not less interesting creatures are resident, 

 although mermaids and "mitred priest and cowled friar" may not 

 there be found. 



The whole of the British fresh-water fishes are included in four orders 

 and embraced in seven families. I cannot do better than give a list of 

 them as arranged by Mr. Pennell in his "Angler Naturalist" after 

 Cuvier. It runs as follows : 



CLASSIFICATION OF BRITISH FRESH-WATER FISH. 



IST SERIES. TRUE, OR BONY FISH. 

 Order I. SPINY-FIKNED FISH. 

 Family 1. Perches PERCID^E. 

 Species. 



Perch. (Percajluviatilis.) 

 Ruffe, or Pope. (Acerina vulgaris.) 

 Family 2. FISH WITH HARD CHEEKS. 

 Species. 



BuLhead, or Miller's Thumb. ( Coitus gobio.) 

 Rough-tailed Stickleback. (Gastero*teus trachunis.) 

 Half -armed Stickleback. ( Gasteronteus semiarmaius.) 

 Smooth-tailed Stickleback. ( G aster onteus leiurus.) 

 Short-spined Stickleback. (Gasterosteus brachycentrus.) 

 Four-spined Stickleback. ( Gasteroxteiis spinulosus. ) 

 Ten-spmed Stickleback. ( Gagteronleux vimgitius.) 



Order II. SOFT-FINNED FISH with ventral fins on the belly. 

 Family 1. Carps CYPRINID.S:. 

 Species, 



Common Carp. ( Cyprinus carpio.) 



Crucian, or German, Carp. ( Cyprinus carassius.) 



Prussian, or Gibel, Carp. (Ci prinus gibelio.') 



Gold Carp. ( Cyprinan auratui.) 



Barbel. (Barbug vulgaria.) 



fudgeon. (Gobio flumatilis.} 

 ench. (Tinea vulgaris.) 

 ream, or Carp Bream. (Abramis brama.\ 

 White Bream, or Bream-flat. (Abramis b'ticca.) 

 Pomeranian Bream. (Abramis Bug genhagii.} 

 T>ace. (Leuctecus vulgaris.) 

 Roach. (Leuciscus rutitus.) 

 Double Roach. (Leucitcu* dobula.) 



