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Willoughby mentions a loach near five inches 

 long ; and Pallas says they are very large in the 

 rivers of Russia. 



Loaches in France are fed with bread made of 

 goats* milk, drains from a dunghill, &c. 



The great loach forms a living barometer ; on 

 being placed in a vessel of water, with earth at 

 the bottom, it never fails to predict the approach 

 of a storm, by rising from the bottom of such a 

 vessel, and swimming about near the surface in 

 an unquiet manner. Shaw's Zoology. 



BULL-HEAD. 



The bull-head is a very ugly fish, it seldom ex- 

 ceeds three inches and a half in length; some 

 anglers consider them better baits than the minnow, 

 when the gill fin is cut off; it is, indeed, a tempting 

 bait for eels. Bull-heads are very common in the 

 market of Montevideo ; probably they are much 

 larger there than those found in England. 



Donovan. 



