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or sharpe teeth, wherewith they bite and hold any 

 other fish that they take. . . . The other kind do 

 not so : but having teeth only like unto Man, broad 

 and flat, do grind and chew all their meat before they 

 swallow it : and it is unnaturall for the Carpe, 

 Breame, Tench, or Roach to eat another raw fish, as 

 it is for a sheep or a cow to eat raw flesh. The 

 sharpe and devouring teeth in the Pike, Perch, 

 Trought and Eele, are easily seene and perceived, 

 but so are not the flat grinding teeth in the other 

 kind of fish. Howbeit if you search diligently the 

 head of the Carpe, Breame, or any other of that 

 nature, and of any bignesse, when it is sodden you 

 shall find two neather jawes, having in each jaw a 

 row of flat teeth, like to the eye teeth in a man, and 

 apt to grind and chew withall, with which two 

 neather jawes they grind their meate against a 

 certaine flat bone in the roofe of their mouth, or 

 upper part of their throte. 



Yarrell, in his British Fishes, quotes from a paper 

 which a Mr Jacobs contributed to the Hanover 

 Magazine, in 1763, the following statement in regard 

 to the impossibility of breeding trout in standing 

 waters : 



1. According to the course of nature, no Trouts or 

 Salmon are generated in ponds or standing waters. 



2. They cannot be bred there if millions of 

 pregnant eggs were put into them. 



Taverner anticipated these observations by about 

 163 years : 



Neither will the Trought spawne in any standing 

 poole, but will live and grow very fat and good . . . 

 and will also be very fat and good all the winter long 

 by reason he doth not spawne as afore sayd. 



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