Fishes. 1705 



being such a great attraction ; but has any one observed frogs undoubtedly so in- 

 fluenced ? 



I have, perhaps, after all, made but little advance towards the truth ; but I have, I 

 hope, explained why I cannot consider the extraordinary sagacity of the frog at all es- 

 tablished by the anecdote before us. But that we may come to some satisfactory de- 

 termination, we must make observations and experiments, and communicate to the 

 } Zoologist ' any important results of them. I shall be really glad if these tend to 

 elevate my present views of the moral and intellectual attributes of the frog ; for I well 

 remember the time when I fondly looked upon him as the most pious of animals. 

 Besides, his attitude of prayer, and his resignation in the extremity of danger ; when I 

 saw the fair and plump young frogs carrying their helpless relatives, I used to think it 

 a case equalled only by the Dutch story of the stork, and by that of iEneas after the 

 siege of Troy. — I. Wolleij. 



Notes on the Fishes of the District of the Land's End. 

 By R. Q. Couch, Esq., M.R.C.S.L., &c. 



(Continued from page 1648). 



The " schull " to which I have been referring is the one commonly 

 called the " summer schull ; " there is another which the fishermen 

 call the " winter fish." This last, from the spot in which it first ap- 

 pears, from its course, and from the appearance of the fish, is perfectly 

 distinct from the former. The winter shoals always first appear on 

 the north-eastern portions of our shores. They are very rarely seen 

 to the east or north-east of Sunday Island. After having touched the 

 shore, they always pass down close by the coast, and that in such vast 

 swarms as even to obstruct the passage of vessels through the water. 

 That this is no exaggeration may be rendered evident from the state- 

 ment of one among many ascertained facts. At the usual time, in 

 1834, this immense shoal passed into St. Ives' Bay ; and a portion re- 

 mained in the waters on its western side, and occupied the whole of 

 the distance from the mouth of Hayle River to the town of St. Ives, a 

 distance of more than two miles in a direct line, and the transverse 

 diameter was about three-fourths of a mile. To this mass of fish a 

 seine was shot ; or to render it clearer, to persons not accustomed to 

 the fishery, a seine was made to enclose as much as its length would 

 allow, and my friend, Joseph Carne, Esq., has furnished me with the 

 result. He says in a letter, " The largest shoaL of pilchards ever en- 

 closed, was taken in a seine of Mr. Roger Bearne at St. Ives, on the 



