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abound in such enormous shoals that they make 

 a ripple on the water like a stiff breeze of wind. 

 Leland, in that quaint language so peculiar to 

 himself, says that " in Wales, not far from 

 Breckenok, in Llyn Senatham, which is in 

 bredth a mile, and a two miles of length, and 

 wher as it is depest a thirteen fadom, it berith 

 as the principale fiseh a great numbre of 

 Bremes, and they appere in May in mighti 

 sculles. So that sumtime they breke large 

 nets ; and ons frayed appereth not in the bryme 

 of the water that yere againe." In many 

 places where bream abound nets are used for 

 taking them. In Ireland this is the case, where 

 the bream run to a very large size, attaining 

 sometimes twelve and fourteen pounds. They 

 are usually bought by the poorer classes, who 

 split and salt them to eat with their potatoes in 

 winter. In England the poorer classes are not 

 so wise; and in Norfolk, where bream swarm, 

 the amount of these fish formerly thrown away 

 in heaps to rot on the banks was an absolute 

 disgrace in a country where there is such 

 destitution as in England. Since the passing 



