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INDEX. 



Boots and Shoes water proof, 

 220 



Boy swallowing a Fish-hook, 

 228 



Bream, Habits, and mode of 

 Capture, 110; when young 

 are called Chads, 111 ; in the 

 Lakes of Prussia, 111 ; on 

 the continent, 111 ; remark- 

 able anecdote by Gessner, 

 112; the Buzzard enemy of 

 the, 112 ; formerly a favou- 

 rite fish, 113 



Bull Head, 129; Charm a- 

 gainst Fever, 130 



Canada, Fishing in, 173 



Cape, Fishing at the, 173 



Capitan, 147 



Carps, Habits and mode of 

 catching, 97 ; colour accord - 



^ ing to age, waters they inha- 

 bit, 97 ; weight of, 99 ; Du 

 Hamel's method of catching, 

 101; Culture of, 101 ; me- 

 thod of fattening, 102 ; out 

 of water, 102 



Carp ponds in France, 103 ; 

 Tenacious of life, 104 



Cats catching Fish, 220 



Caymen, catching, 174 



Charr, mode of catching, 67 



China, New mode of Fishing, 

 177 



Chub, its Habits, and mode of 

 capture, 123-124 ; large in 

 the Meuse, and French me- 

 thod of catching, 124; and 

 Trout caught at the same 

 time, 221 



Ciego, 147 



Cirenitz Lake, 176 



Coal Fishing in Ireland, 186 



Columbus, 177 



Comiparu, a plant to intoxicate 

 Fish, 231 



Congo, method of Fishing at, 

 177 



Corfu, Fishing at, 178 



Creeping Fish, 219 



Cuba, extraordinary method of 

 Fishing at, 178 



Cultivation of Fish, 211 



Curbinata, 148 



Curious occurrence,42; trim- 

 mers for Pike, 72 



Curragh ; or, Irish Fishing- 

 boat, 221 



Cusk, 148 



Dace, its Habits. 122 

 Dinner, extraordinary Fish, 



227 



Diving, catching Fish by, 192 

 Docility of Fish, 223 

 Dog's pool in Caernarvonshire, 



224 



Double Fish, 223 

 Drowning, to escape from, 27 

 Drum Fish, 148 

 Duck and Trout, 221 



East India Fish, 148 



East Falkland Islands Fish, 

 149 



Eels, Natural History of, 133, 

 134 ; method of catching, 

 133 ; migratory habits, 134 ; 

 ponds, 134 ; grow to a large 

 size, 135; curious fact re- 

 specting, 136 ; Longevity of, 

 136 ; enforcing sobriety, 

 137 ; blind man catching 

 one, 137 ; a pet one, 137 ; 

 smoked and salted, 138 ; 

 and Carps when frozen, 

 138 ; great nourishment 

 therein, and consumption 

 cured, 139; best method of 

 dressing them, 139 



Extraordinary circumstance, 

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