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frefla water fifli : their roes are even held poifonous ; for 

 they afFecl thofe who unwarily eat thea), with a uaufeaj 

 ▼omiting, and purging *. 



'fhe 1'cnchf. 



The tench is unnoticed in the writings of all the an* 

 c'xtnf^h^ioxz'udujonms; and by him it is mentioned in 

 I'uch terms of difrefpt£l, as fliews the capricioufnels of 

 tafte J 



Quis non et virides vulgi folatia Tineas 

 Norit ? 



Willo7ighhy mentions the infalubiity of this fifli, on 

 account of which, it was unanimouily condemned by the 

 medical people of his time ; he denies, however, that 

 it is ungrateful to the tafte ; pofterity have been of the 

 fan.e opinion, and have gratified their palates with it 

 without feeling any bad cfFedls. 



The reficience of the tench is either in flagnated or 

 running water ; although if is taken in the Tiber.) a pret- 

 ty rapid ftieani, it feems to have migrated there from 

 the adjoining lakes J. There is fa:d to exifl a wcndef- 



ful 



• Brkifli Zoologjr, gen. 40. 



f La Tanche Bclon. Cyprlnus pinna ani rafllis 25. Lin. Syft. 



\ It is now naturalifed in England, where it lias been imported from 

 its native lakes in the fouth of Europe We have already noticed with 

 regret, tha,t the ingenuity of mar. ha? made fo little progrefs in the do- 

 mellication of fifhes; this and the car;> being the only fpecies of near fivo 

 hundred, that have been brought into that ftate. 



