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qualites des lamproies, les amis de bonne cliere et les 

 medecins eux-m^mes admettaient ces poissons sxir leurs 

 tables et ne s'en trouvaient pas incommodes. On a at- 

 tribue la mort de Henry I. d'Angleterre k \m repas dans 

 lequel il avait trop mange de lamproies. Mais de quoi 

 ne peut-on pas mourir lorsque Ton en fait exces ? Et la 

 puissance des rois ne tient pas toujours contre une indi- 

 gestion.' 



The fresh-water lamprey, or pride, is about half the 

 size of the sea lamprey ; it abounds in most of our rivers, 

 and is a source of great profit to the fishermen, who ex- 

 port it to Hamburg, Dantzic, and other places, either for 

 food or for Hve-bait. The Dutch prize it highly on ac- 

 count of its toughness and tenacity to Ufe, and use large 

 quantities in the cod and turbot fisheries. YarreU states 

 that they will give from two to five pounds a thousand ; 

 and so abundant are these fish in the Thames, that in 

 one year four hundred thousand were thus disposed of j 

 the minimum given by this author is one hundred thou- 

 sand, the maximum eight hundred thousand. 



