T he B ae i 
CALLED, in Iéhyology, Barbus, but by fome writers ih 
Natural Hiftory, Muftus Stuviatitis, and is a fpecies of the 
Cyprinus. The Barbel is a fith commonly known and fo 
called from the barb or beard under its chaps or nofe, and is of 
the leather-mouthed kind. 
Itis but a moder ate tafted ith, and the Be Bate is lefs efteemed 
for the table than the male; but neither of them is much 
valued: the worft feafon for them i isin April. They love to 
be among the weirs, where there i is a hard gravelly ceo 
and generally fwim together i in large fhoals. 
In fummer, they frequent the ftrongeft and fwifteft currents 
of water, as under deep bridges, weirs, and the like places, and 
are apt to get in among the piles, weeds, and other fhelter; 
but in winter, they retire into the deepeft and fillet waters ; 
the beft feafon for angling for this fifh, is trom May to Auguft, 
and the time for taking them is very early in the morning, or 
a. A late 
