CHAPTER XL 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE TENCH, AND ADVICE HOW 

 TO ANGLE FOR HIM. 



PlSC. The Tench, the physician of fishes, is observed to 

 love ponds better than rivers, and to love pits better than 

 either ; yet Camden observes, there is a river in Dorsetshire 

 that abounds with tenches, but doubtless they retire to the 

 most deep and quiet places in it. 



This fish hath very large fins, very small and smooth 

 scales, a red circle about his eyes, which are big and of a 

 gold colour, and from either angle of his mouth there hangs 

 down a little barb. In every tench's head there are two 

 little stones, which foreign physicians make great use of, 

 but he is not commended for wholesome meat, though there 

 be very much use made of them for outward applications. 

 Rondeletius says, that at his being at Rome, he saw a great 

 cure done by applying a tench to the feet of a very sick 



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