ICHTHYOLOGY. 



" The carp, with golden scales, in wanton play ; 

 The trout in crimson-speckled glory gay ; 

 The red-finn'd roach, the silver-coated eel ; 

 The pike, whose haunt the twisted roots conceal ; 

 The healing tench, the gudgeon, perch, and bream 

 And all the sportive natives of the stream.*' 



THE study of fishes, technically termed Ichthy- 

 ology, was, perhaps, longer in being brought to 

 what might be called a science, than the histories 

 and descriptions of animals and birds. The 

 difficulty of procuring a numerous series of in- 

 . dividuals, and the impossibility of penetrating 



