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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 

 Isar, 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 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 schiel, or perca 

 lucio perca, and three other species ofperca are found 

 in it the zingel, F 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 Danube. The schiel 

 is found likewise in the Spree and in the Hungarian 

 lakes, and, according to Bloch, the zingel in the 

 Rhone. 



POIET. I should like extremely to fish in the 

 Isar : 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 



