‘In taste, and for his bait (indeed) his next of kin ; 
up t 
the 
7a the. as, iene Muséum ataiet 5 Ibs. = oz 
34 Drayton and Carr: Fishes cf Trent, 1622 and 1897. 
So that of every kind, the new-spawn’ *d numerous fry 
Seem in me as the sands that on my shore do lie. 
The Barbell,* than which fish a braver doth not swim, 
Nor greater for the ford within my spacious brim, 
Nor (newly taken) more the curious taste doth please z 
The Greling,? whose gréat spawn is big as any nae 
The Pearch * with pricking fins, against the Pike * sneridt d, 
As Nature had thereon bestow’d this stronger guard 
His daintiness to keep (each curious palate’s proof) 
From his vile ravenous foe : next him I name the Ruffe,° 
His very near ally, and both for scale and fin, 
The pretty slender Dare, of many call’d the Dace,’ 
Within my liquid glass, when Phoebus looks’ his face, 
Oft swiftly as he swims his silver belly shows, 
But with such nimble sleight that ere ye can disclose ‘3 
His shape, out of your sight like lightning he is shot. ; 
The Trout ’ by Nature mark’d with many a crimson spot, 
As though she curious were in him above the rest, 
And of fresh-water fish did note him for the best ; 
rbel (Barbus hance Flem.). 
Common in deep waters all along” 
the course of the Trent, 
h above and below Nottingham. _ Specimens +e 
ro lbs. in weight are punts taken ; the largest specimen in the 
Wodinetan Museum weighed 1034 Ibs. 
> Grayling (Thymallus vulgaris Nilss.). 
Was, within twenty years 
fairly common in one or two plac 
es near Nottingham, but is now very 
ens, of four or five ounces weight « each, caught 
en from the Trent in Béeston Meadows about two years ago ; itis just | 
Over ten inches in length. ; 
erch (Perca fluviatilis \..). aig < common in all parts of the Trekts 
In the Nottingha am Museum there is a local specimen which weighed 3% Ibs. 
latins i i 
Pi Esox Yes cae in the Trent ; 
in 1 the Museum weighed 20 
the largest apecunes 
, agree (Acerina cernua T.) One of the ceramounat fishes in the 
ren 
se: Dae. gy eee —- Fem.) Very Lnaninint call a the — 
Trent. : 4 ae 
* Trout (Salmo farts ra. Scarce in the Tr rent, but occurs about — 
Spots where thé small t trout-streams enter the river. A loéal specimen _ 
