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or the melting of the snows, whenever I 

 have been at Munich ; but I have seen in the 

 fish-market at Munich very large huchos. 

 Late in the autumn, or in early spring, this 

 river must be an interesting one to fish in, 

 as the schill, or perca lucio perca, and three 

 other species of perca are found in it the 

 zingel, the apron, and the perca schratz all 

 fish of prey, and excellent food. I have eaten 

 them, but never taken them ; they are rare in 

 European rivers, though not, like the hucho, 

 peculiar to the tributary streams of the Da- 

 nube. The schill is found likewise in the 

 Sprey and in the Hungarian lakes, and, ac- 

 cording to Bloch, the zingel in the Rhone. 



POIET. I should like extremely to fish in 

 the Izar : it is, I think, a new kind of pleasure 

 to take a new kind of fish, even though it is 

 not unknown to Natural Historians. But the 

 most exquisite kind of angling, in my opinion, 

 would be that of angling in a river never 

 fished in by Europeans before; and I can 

 scarcely imagine sport of a higher kind than 

 that which involves a triple source of pleasure 

 catching a fish, procuring good food for 

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