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The perch are to be found in all the temperate 

 parts of Europe, and in great part of Asia ; they 

 are also found in Italy and Sweden, likewise in 

 Great Britain, where they are very plentiful ; it is 

 not mentioned in the North Sea, nor in the Faunas 

 of the Orkneys and Greenland. It is fished for, 

 says Pallas, all over the Russian empire and 

 Georgia ; and if the perch does not exist in North 

 America, there is at least a fish very like it. This 

 fish inclines rather to the sources of a river, than 

 to descend to the sea. Its motion in swimming is 

 in bounds, and not in flocks, like other fish. A 

 perch seven inches long is considered three years 

 old. Baron Cuvier. 



Perch are in general very tenacious of life ; 

 some of them have been known to survive a jour- 

 ney of sixty miles on dry straw. Bingley. 



The various ways of catching perch, and their 

 boldness in biting, afford the angler most excel- 

 lent sport. The perch delight in clear swift rivers, 

 with a gravelly bottom, not very deep water. 

 They thrive best in ponds which have a brook or 

 rivulet running through them. Their best baits 

 are crabbs' claws, perch eyes, red worms, with- 

 out knots, all well scoured, minnows, &c. &c. 



The Editor had good sport at Frencham, with 

 minnows. 



