ABDOMINAL MALACOPTERYGII. 129 



" A piece of water which had been ordered to be 

 filled up, and into which wood and rubbish had 

 been thrown for years, was directed to be cleared 

 out. Persons were accordingly employed ; and, 

 almost choked up by weeds and mud, so little water 

 remained, that no person expected to see any fish 

 except a few Eels ; yet nearly two hundred brace of 

 Tench of all sizes, and as many Perch, were found. 

 After the pond was thought to be quite free, under 

 some roots there seemed to be an animal which was 

 conjectured to be an Otter ; the place was surround- 

 ed, and on opening an entrance among the roots, a 

 Tench was found, of most singular form, having 

 literally assumed the shape of the hole, in which 

 he had of course many years been confined. His 

 length from eye to fork, was thirty-three inches ; 

 his circumference, almost to the tail, was twenty 

 seven inches ; his weight eleven pounds nine ounces 

 and a quarter ; the colour also was singular, his belly 

 being that of a Char, or vermillion. This extraor- 

 dinary fish, after having been inspected by many 

 gentlemen, was carefully put into a pond, and at 

 the time the account was written, twelve months 

 afterwards, was alive and well." 



Leuciscus,* the Dace, the Roach, fyc. 



This, in fact, like those fishes we have just no- 

 ticed, is but a subgenus of the Carp tribe, distin- 

 guished by the dorsal and anal being both short, and 



'.os, leukos, white. 



