AND OF STILL WATERS. 



eels are much sought after, and are formed into 

 cakes, which are eaten fried. 



The term elver, which, as we have said, is in 

 some places indiscriminately used to denote all 

 young eels, in reality belongs only to the 

 " transparent " eels, occasionally to be found 

 among their more opaque brethren. These 

 elvers are so transparent that most of the 

 internal organs and the action of the heart and 

 blood-vessels can easily be seen. They have 

 been found with the characteristics of both 

 sharp-nosed and broad-nosed eels ; and there 

 is no particular season for their appearance, 

 for they have been caught in winter and 

 summer. In spite of their transparency, or 

 rather on account of it, they have remained one 

 of the many mysteries of the eel family. 



One of the greatest peculiarities possessed by 

 eels is that they have a second heart situated in 

 the extremity of their tails j and, of course, in 

 the transparent elvers the action of this heart 

 can be more easily noted than in the ordinary 

 eels. In all, however, its action is plainly 

 manifest, especially if the fish has been out of 



