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there runs a crooked line of points^ one on each Jcak^ as in Tab. 
I o. Fig, 8. The Fifies moft like ic of any dcfcribed, are the Bol- 
lerm OT Bordeliere^ ^nd the Fhcxini^ Rcfe or Eofiere of Rondde- 
tiu6^ ; butthat they cannot be they^;;?^ is plain from hence in chat 
the Bordeliere IS confefi: to have no ^eetb^ whereas the Finjadeh-ds 
teeth large as a Roach and the Phoxini never to be found 
without /^^2^f77, or to exceed half afoot in length, whereas I have 
feen Finfcales^ even in time of year when one might well have 
expelled it, without zny fparrn ; and fome of them (particularly 
the defcribed one, Fi^. 8.) from the W(9w//' to the fork of the 
tail a foot long^ and four inches and a half in depth, befide many 
other differences that might alfo be brought. 
30. Which is all 1 have met with extraordinary amongft the 
fquamou6 kind of Fifi^ but that there is a fort of Chub peculiar 
to the Evenlode^ fome fay exceeding, all equalling the Pearchox: 
Tench in goodnefs. And that at Lillingflon-Lovell^ about fix 
years fince were taken two Salmons^ one iomwhat above, theo- 
ther fomwhat under a yard in length, in a fmall brook, (a branch 
of the Oufe') that a man may ilep over, little lefs (as the riz/er 
runs) than two hundred miles from the Sea. Howthefe Salmons 
lliould come up fo high^ has been much wondered at by fome^ 
fince fo many Mills and Locks ftand in the way on this Rivulet to 
hinder them : but to fuch as have either feen, or but read of the 
Salmon-leap at Kilgarran in Pembroke-fiire '\ or at IVajJhfal in the 
Rhine^ which I fuppofe is much greater, and that they run up that 
riz/er above five hundred miles to the Lake of Zugh in Switzer- 
land'^ perhaps it may not appear fo firange ; efpecially if it be 
alfo confidered, that our Mills and Locks have moft of them back 
ftreamsznA lafiers to carry off the water when it is too plentiful, 
over which the leap is but very inconfiderable. 
3 1 . I have met with alfo fomwhat remarkable of our frefi rra- 
ter fiell-fiji^ and particularly of ,a fort of Gammaru^^ or Crey-fifi^ 
found in ^d!//br^/ftream,that do's not boil to a hriskrtd colour,but 
at beft of a dirty yellcvpip red, which I fuppofe niuft be attributed 
to the badnefs of the water, infeded with ill qualities perhaps 
by the Moor through which it paffes, which is very agreeable to 
one of Cardans figns of good water : Vbi aqua bona (fays he) 
s Rond-deFifcihus lacuflrihus, cap. 8. <^ de Jluviati/iius, cap- 2%. ^ Camden in Pc/vh'. (§■■ Cardigai?. 
* Mr. Kz)'sObfervat. Topograph. <^c. p. \10- j 
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