210 P I K E. Class IV. 



XXXIV. Upper jaw fhorter than the lower. 



PIKE. gQjj^, \ong^ flendex^ comprelTed Tideways. 



One dorfal fin placed near the tail. 



153. Pike. Lucius. Jufonii Mo/ella, 122* Pike, or Pickerel. Wil Icth, 



Luccio. Salvian* 94. 236. Rait fyn. pifc, II 2. 



Le Brochet. Belouy 292. Itin, Efox roftro plagioplateo. Art, 



104. fynon, 26. 



Lucia?. P.cndel fu^'iat. iSS. Efox Lucius. Lin, fyji. 516. 



Gejher pi/c. 500. Grono'v Zooph. No. 361. 



Heket, Hecht. Schone^veldey Gjadda. Faun. Suec. No, 355. 



44. Hecht. Kram. 388. 



THE pike is commcn in mofc of the lakes of 

 Europe, but the largeft are thofe taken in L^p- 

 land^ w^hich, according to Sch^ffei'^ are fometimes 

 eight feet long. They are taken there in great abun- 

 dance, dried, and- exported for lale. The largeft fifb 

 of this kind which we ever heard of in England^ 

 weighed thirty-five pounds. 



According to the common faying, thefe fifh were 

 introduced into England in the reign of Henry VIIL 

 in 15:^7. They were fo rare, that a pike was fold 

 for double the price of a houfe-lamb in February., and 

 a pickerel for m.ore than a fat capon. How far this 

 may be depended on, I cannot fay, for this fifh is 

 mentioned in the Boke of St. Alhons, printed in the 

 year J 49 6, and is not there fpoke of as a fcarce filh, 

 as was then the cafe with refpe6t to the carp. Great 

 numbers of this fifh were dreffed in the year 1466, 

 at the great feail: given by George Ne-vil^ Arch- 

 bilhop of l^ork. 



All writers who treat of this fpecies bring in- 

 flances of its vaft voracioufnefs. We have known 

 one that was choaked by attempting to fwallow 



one 



