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above its head, which so much resemble marine 

 worms, that the fishes being deceived by them, 

 are decoyed by the capacious vortex which is open 

 to receive them. 



Dr. Smith. Fish and Fisheries. 



Fishing Frog, or Angler Lophius Piscatorius. 

 A strange fish has been exhibited round the 

 town, in the course of the last two or three days, 

 which was caught in the mud in this harbour ; it 

 proves to be the fishing frog. This extraordinary 

 fish is five feet long, and the mouth when open is 

 three feet in circumference ; teeth long, rounded, 

 and bent inwards, three rows in the upper, and 

 two in the lower jaw; inhabits European seas. 

 The curator of the Portsmouth Philosophical In- 

 stitution has purchased it for the Museum. 



Portsmouth Herald, Oct. 1833. 



Fishing in the Ganges. During the periodical 

 rains the Ganges overflows its banks. After the 

 floods have subsided the smaller fish crowd up the 

 rivulets : a fisherman of an idle sort plies his dingy 

 or punt, and when it grates the sand, moors it 

 across the stream ; with a long indented bone, 

 something like a quail cull, he, in great unconcern, 

 with his hubble-bubble, or googoru a pipe so 

 called for the bubbling it makes, in having the 

 smoke drawn through a half-filled cocoa-nut shell 

 in one hand, and the musical instrument in the 



