The Complete Angler. 



it were cafually) without the leaft 

 communicating them to any other 

 Nation or Tribe (for to do fo, they 

 account a profanation) .- yet this 

 fifh, that does by a natural inbred 

 Balfome, not only cure himfelfe if 

 he be wounded, but others alfo, 

 loves not to live in clear ftreams pa- 

 ved with gravel, but in ftanding wa- 

 ters, where mud and the worft of 

 weeds abound, and therefore it is, I 

 think, that this Tench 



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is by fo many accounted better for 

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