APPENDIX X. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



1 Fish will get into the mud so that they are not visible, and 

 ponds have been known to dry completely up, yet when they were 

 full again, the fish have reappeared from their bed of moist mud, 

 alive and well. 



2 Walton means the bream-flat, a fish, if possible, nastier and 

 slimier than the bream. It is verv common in the Norfolk waters. 

 I do not think it is a hybrid. 



PRACTICAL ESSAY. 

 THE BREAM. 



There are two species of bream, the bream-flat, which is com- 

 paratively small, silvery, and worthless for sport ; and the common 

 carp bream, which is a better and larger fish, of a more golden 

 colour, and affording more sport. The bream affects slow muddy 

 rivers and lakes, and in the Norfolk rivers and broads it is found in 

 countless numbers, and catches of it are counted by the stone 



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