APPENDIX VI. 



HISTORICAL NOTE. 



Hippolito Salviani, an Italian physician of the sixteenth cen- 

 tury ; he wrote a treatise " De Piscibus, cum sorum figuris," and 

 died at Rome, 1572, aged 59. H. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Smelts have a decided cucumbery smell, which is so strong that 

 persons have asserted that when the shoals of them come up the 

 Yare, the smell can be detected by a keen-nosed person on the 

 bank. 



PRACTICAL ESSAY. 

 THE GRAYLING. 



Grayling fishing comes in when trout fishing leaves off. In 

 autumn and winter this handsome fish is in its best condition. It 



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