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the Bure, or North River, which connects itself with the Hickling 
group of broads; but, although some good hauls are netted at 
Runham (six miles up), and even higher, satisfactory evidence is 
not to hand that the fish actually go into these shallow lagoons. 
I know of one instance where a man at Potter Heigham trans- 
fixed a fine Smelt on an Eel-pick, but beyond this have no 
account of one taken as high as that. Potter Heigham is 
seventeen and a half miles by river from Yarmouth Bridge, and 
Norwich is twenty-six miles. 
March 8rd. A ten-inch Brill (Rhombus levis) turned up at 
a fish-stall to-day, with the upper surface of a porcelain-white 
with the exception of a splashing of the normal coloration round 
the eyes, and ten spots of the same hue, like finger-prints, 
placed around the edges of the fins in singular order, five on 
each edge. The fins and caudal appendage were, however, of 
the ordinary grey-brown colour. 
A considerable number of Hake (Merlucius vulgaris) in the 
town on April 13th, and on the 14th several shops displayed an 
unusual number of Sail Flukes (Rhombus megastoma), several 
running to fifteen inches in length. These were from consign- 
ments landed in the south-west of England. I tried one of the 
Flukes, but found its flesh dry and insipid, more like that of an 
out-of-condition Whiting than a Sole, for which fish it is occa- 
sionally sold to the unwary. 
On April 29th I saw a ten-inch Codling, taken on Breydon, 
with a very short upper lip, the lower one extending much 
beyond it. The fish, viewed from the front, had a curiously 
frog-like appearance. 
May 1st. Some large North Sea Pollack (Gadus pollachius) 
brought in. 
On the same date I observed some rich yellow sections of a 
round fish which looked uncommonly like filleted Haddocks, the 
colouring being much more ochreous, and the general appearance 
exceedingly appetising. The salesman, on my questioning him, 
at first professed ignorance as to its species, but with a little 
suggesting he at length admitted that he believed it to be 
crimped ‘‘Cat-fish,” the local name for Wolf-fish (4Anarrhichas 
lupus). ‘‘ But they are selling well,’ he remarked with a smile, 
‘and several stones of it had gone off during the week.’’ He 
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