52 NOTES ON CERTAIN FISHES, ETC., 



seldome and in the winter butt 4 yeares ago 15 were 

 taken at Trowes mill [ab crossed oui\ in Xtmas. whose 

 mouths were stuck with small wormes or horsleaches no 

 bigger than fine threads some of these I kept in water 3 

 moneths if a few drops of blood were putt to the water 

 they would in a litle time looke red. they sensibly grewe 

 bigger then I first found them and were killed by an 

 hard froast freezing the water, most of our Salmons 

 haue a recurued peece of flesh in ye end of the lower 

 iawe wch when they shutt there mouths deepely enters 

 the upper, as Scaliger hath noted in some. 



The Riuers lakes & broads'* abound in [the Lucius 

 or added above'] pikes of very large size where also is 

 found the Brama or [breme crossed out] Breme large & 

 well tasted the Tinea or Tench the Rubecula Roach as 

 also Rowds and Dare or Dace perca or pearch great & 

 small, whereof such [as] are are in Braden on this 



John Baptist shall be punished according to the law." The Salmon is the 

 host of several parasites both internal and external. Fresh run Salmon are 

 generally infested with a " Sea-louse," which quickly perishes in fresh- 

 water ; not so, however, with the troublesome worm-like creature, the 

 subject of Browne's experiments ; it is known as Lerncsa salmonis, and is 

 only found on the gill-covers of spent Kelts ; it is not got rid of till the fish 

 returns to the salt water. Browne may be excused being rather sceptical 

 as to the identity of the clean run Salmon and the spent Kelt, for 

 no greater contrast can be imagined than that which exists between the 

 two — the male in the "redding" season develops the unsightly hooked 

 mandible, which so puzzled the worthy doctor, and both in colour and 

 form is as hideous an object as can be imagined. B^card Gallorum (not 

 Beccard gallorus), i.e., the fish called " B^card " by the French (see second 

 letter to Merrett), refers to the use of a name still applied in France to a 

 large Cock Salmon, and " Anchorago" is the name under which the fish 

 was described by Scaliger, whose book I have not seen. Dr. Gtlnther 

 tells me that Artedi, " Ichthyologia," Pt. v., p. 23, quotes this name as a 

 synonym of the Salmon. 



^ The freshwater fishes named in the next three paragraphs are so well 

 known as to require few remarks. The Bream in our rivers and broads 

 are very numerous and reach a large size, but of their esculent qualities 

 I have had no personal experience ; not so, however, with the Perch, which 



