APPENDIX XI. 



GENERAL NOTE. 



1 The statement that the tench has healing power among his 

 brother fishes has never been satisfactorily proved, yet it is widely 

 believed that he has some such power. It is not a thing that I 

 should dogmatically contradict. The skin of a freshly caught tench 

 from clear waters, always seems to me to have a peculiarly cool, 

 soft, and pleasant feel. It has been ascertained by experiment that 

 pike will not feed upon tench, but one can scarcely imagine such 

 abstention to be caused by gratitude. 





PRACTICAL ESSAY. 



THE TENCH. 



In his habits the tench is like the carp, but in appearance it is 

 very different. It is very thickset and muscular in shape, golden 

 greenish or olive green in hue, and covered with a cool soft slime. 

 Tench grow to four or five pounds in weight, and frequent still, 

 weedy waters. Many a small pool, apparently choked up with 

 weeds, is yet full of fine tench. The ventral fins of the male tench 



