94 ANECDOTES OF FISHES 



There is one species of perch which is capable 

 of quitting its native element, and breathing the 

 air, like eels, by climbing up posts, &c. &c. 



Gallery of Nature, vol. v. 



Crooked Perch. Back quite hunched, and the 

 back-bone near the tail distorted ; to be found in 

 the Thames, near Marlow; also in a perch-pool in 

 Lyn Kaithlyn, Merionethshire. 



The author of the Angler's Sure Guide, says, 

 he once saw the figure of a perch drawn with a 

 pencil on a door near Oxford, which was twenty- 

 nine inches long. In the lakes of Lapland and 

 Siberia, perch are found of a monstrous size. Mr. 

 Pennant says, one taken in the Serpentine river 

 weighed nine pounds. In the great pool of Bala, 

 North Wales, they are taken at five pounds weight. 



Schoeffer asserts that in Lapland there is a 

 dried head of a perch preserved in the church at 

 Luchlah, which, from the top to the under jaw, is 

 about two hands broad. 



A perch of eight pounds was taken in Dagenham 

 Breach by Mr. Carter. 



At Mulham Water, near Settle, in Yorkshire, 

 perch grow to five pounds or upwards, but are 

 generally blind with one eye, or both. 



Sportsman's Cyclopedia. 



