GENERAL NOTES. 



* " Ephemera " says : " Eels have ova and milt like other fresh- 

 water fish. . . . They are migratory in rivers running into the 

 sea. They migrate to deposit their spawn in salt water, and im- 

 migrate to fresh water to grow in it. . . . I am of opinion that 

 eels are oviparous, and I know, of my own knowledge, that Mr. 

 Andrew Young, of Invershin, Sutherlandshire, has bred them arti- 

 ficially from impregnated spawn, procured from living male and 

 female specimens." See Essay as to the general habits of eels. 



8 There are three sorts of lampreys which inhabit British waters : 

 the common or sea-lamprey, which grows to a great size in the 

 Severn ; the lampern or river-lamprey, of which, when I was a boy, 

 we used to catch great numbers in the Welsh Dee ; and the fringe- 

 lipped lampern. The peculiar characteristics of the lampreys are 

 their circular mouths, which act as suckers, by means of which they 

 can hold on to stones or other objects with surprising tenacity, and 

 the seven apertures on each side of the neck which act as gills. 





PRACTICAL ESSAY. 



THE EEL 



is more useful as an article of food than of sport. There are three 

 British species : the broad-nosed eel, the sharp-nosed eel, and the 

 snig. 



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