penance or no opportunity of fishing for anything 

 else. Our engraving shews a fine youth of fifteen 

 a portrait engaged in angling for roach. Good luck 

 to thee, Tom! thy very attitude, shows that thy 

 body, as well as thy mind, is at ease. Take thy 

 pleasure in fresh-water angling while thou mayst, 

 for within twelve months we expect to receive from 

 thee a promising midshipman in one of his Ma- 

 jesty's frigates on the West India station a letter 

 giving an account of fishing for sharks in Montego 

 Bay. 



The rud, though by some naturalists considered 

 a distinct species, is probably a variety of the roach. 

 It is never, that we are aware of, caught in streams, 

 but only in ponds and lakes, or large pieces of 

 standing water, such as the fleets of the Trent, 

 formed by the occasional overflowing of a river. 

 It differs chiefly from the roach in being broader, 

 the colour of its sides more of a yellowish brown; 

 and the irides yellow. The rud is found in the 

 fleets of the Trent, in the water at Dagenh am breach, 

 in Horns ea-m ere in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 

 and in several ponds in Lincolnshire. 



In the Linneean Transactions for 1832, Mr. Yarrell 

 has described a species of the genus Cyprinus, the 

 Graining, caught in several streams which flow into 

 the Mersey, near Warrington, but apparently unknown 

 in other parts of the country. It resembles the dace 

 in general appearance, but Mr. "Zarrell is confident 

 that it is of a distinct species. Its length, compared 



