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heard him descant upon, though without, I 

 believe, making any converts. 



That the Kelts of the Dovey are wondrously 

 well-looking, and fight hard to the last, when 

 hooked, is beyond dispute. And no one, I 

 hear, without ocular proof, would credit the 

 difference between an Usk or Wye, and a 

 Dovey Kelt. The latter, too, are never in- 

 fested with parasites on the gill-covers ; and 

 often, I have been told, when cooked, have 

 been pronounced good, in colour and flavour, 

 by excellent judges, and particularly in the 

 case of the cocks. I must, however, in candour, 

 admit myself, that the few I have ever had the 

 courage to taste, were very far from coming 

 up to the above favourable character of them, 

 but were in the words of the farmer, who 

 probably had never tasted decent fish in his 

 life, "so nice, and white, and soft." 



That the poisoned waters of the Dovey should 

 hitherto have proved detrimental to the fry, 

 and yet contained some quality capable of 



