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ever, inaction and contentedness, two qualities 

 which that tench is supposed to have enjoyed 

 in a great degree, are sufficient to create health 

 and bulk in any animated being. 



THE SURMULLET. 



There are fourteen species of this fish, but 

 the most remarkable is the Red Surmullet, Mul- 

 lus barbatus of Linnaeus. 



This fish, when alive, presents some of the 

 most brilliant colours exhibited in nature, and 

 the changes which they experience, as the fish 

 expires, are singular and various. The luxurious 

 Romans brought this fish alive to table in a glass 

 vessel, and, suffering the fish to expire, contem- 

 plated with delight the successive changes of 

 colour. After pleasing the eye by this display, 

 the fish was removed and dressed for the feast. 



EXTRAORDINARY LARGE OAK-TREE. 



The large Golenos Oak, which was felled in 

 the year 1810, for the use of his Majesty's 

 navy, grew about four miles from the town of 



