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in Norfolk, a bed of about the same age as our 

 river or valley-gravels, the bones and teeth of the 

 pike may be found tolerably common, showing that, 

 so far as it was concerned, the statement in the 

 couplet is decidely wrong. The term " Crucian," 

 applied to the carp last mentioned, shades off, in 



Fig. 11. 



Scale of Minnow. 



its phonetic sound, into French, German, and 

 Swedish adjectives also given to it. In France it 

 is Carassin, in German Carouche, and in Sweden 

 Karussa. The scales of the Chub, and Grayling, 

 which follow, are in marked contrast, and still 

 further illustrate the difference resulting from the 

 varied play of a few wavy lines. The chub is a 

 river rather than a pond fish, and, in those streams 



