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that had not a single leech upon their bodies, 

 and they were the first fish of the kind I 

 ever saw free from these parasites. 



ORN. I am so much pleased with my 

 good fortune in catching this fish, that I shall 

 try all day to-morrow with the bait, for more 

 of the same kind. 



HAL. You may do so ; but many of these 

 fish cannot be caught ; they migrate generally 

 when the water is foul, and, except in the 

 spring and autumn, do not so readily run at 

 the bait. I was once nearly a month seeking 

 for one in rivers in which they are found, 

 between the end of June and that of July, 

 without being able to succeed in even seeing 

 one alive; and as far as my information goes, 

 the two places where there is most probability 

 of taking them, are at Laybach arid Ratisbon, 

 in the tributary streams to the Sava, and in 

 the Danube ; and the best time, in the first of 

 these situations, is in March and April, and 

 in the second, in May. I am told, likewise, 

 that the Izar, which runs by Munich, is a 

 stream where they may be caught, when the 

 water is clear : but I have never fished in this 

 stream it having been foul, either from rain, 



