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Some are caught later, but they invariably appear to be 

 diseased. 



Those fishes which are caught on the sands about the 

 coast of Sussex, during the fall of the year, are, however, 

 very fine, and are much in request among epicures. 

 They are then called sea mullets, though obviously the 

 same as die above. 



Of the Bleak, or Blear, or Blanc. 



This little fish, which peculiarly resembles the anchovy 

 in its form, though it is not quite so round, comes in sea- 

 son during the summer. The I leak is remarkable for 

 having a transparent skull ; its sides are extremely bril- 

 liaat, owing to die smallness of its scales, which are em- 

 ployed in the imitations of pearls. 



The young angler may, with almost any small bait, 

 but particularly a gentle, or a house-fly, on a hook No. 

 1 0, have excellent amusement at the borders of rivers, 

 and in shoal waters, by dipping for bleaks. I have seen 

 a lady catch ten or twelve dozen, in th<s manner, in the 

 course of the evening. They are remarkably sweet 

 eating. 



Of the Minnow, the Pink, the Stone-Loach, and the 



Bans tide, 



I shall not say any diingj they being beneath the angler's 

 notice, except as baits, under which head the modes of 

 taking them have been described : they are all, however, 

 very palatable. I have described them in the Appendix, 

 and given the outline of the first. 



