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third class, under the designation of MARINE ANGLING, 

 and be separately treated of. 



The following are to be found only in rivers, or in 

 lakes, or other waters that are fed by ample streams; 

 viz. the salmon, the grafting, the trout, die chul, the 

 larlel, the char, the flounder, and the smell. 



Again, some are considered as being properly salt water 

 fishes, since they retire, if accessible, to the sea during cer- 

 tain months. Such are the salmon, the eel, the larlel, 

 the flounder, the mullet, and the smelt. 



Few of the other fishes can live in brackish water ; 

 though the^" ack is occasionally found among those large 

 morasses near Tilbury, and other low situations, to which 

 the tide has access, where its waters are far from being 

 fresh. 



Naturalists conjecture, that salmon would not live the 

 winter through, if kept in fresh water 5 but I believe the 

 point has never been completely ascertained. The eel 

 not only lives, but breeds very fast in ponds, and other 

 secluded waters. 



In respect to the growth of fishes, very little has, I 

 believe, been authenticated : we have fair reason for 

 concluding that fishes do not, like the rest of the animal 

 creation, grow during their prime only, and to any par- 

 ticular standard 5 but that they continue to increase in 

 size so long as they live in health. We know, that even 

 in situations where it should appear they cannot receive 

 much sustenance, they do not cease to accumulate in 

 bulk, and apparently in vigour. 



Very large fishes have been taken out of small wells : 

 and from little puddles, that had no* the least communi- 

 cation 



