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to a spot where they are to he fished for, and where they seize 
he worms with which the hooks are baited. Izaak Walton 
gives directions for the successful practice of fishing for these 
ream, or information concerning which we refer to the well- 
hnown and amusing volume of this patriarch of fishermen. 
found in Cornwall or Devonshire. Fleming 
QuoterP ^ ™'^®finitely, as being found in Scotland j and he 
but it r authority for its inhabiting Loch Maben; 
Wnglom tha; 
language that in Wales, 
TJl anTa r 1 ’ “ ^redth 
nule, and a two miles of length, and wher as it is depest a 
ot a-om “ri » great numbre 
in tho br,„.a of tb. ogX "»* 
«nlttrb;b?r.r„f1be"n“5 
ftey abound m Lough Eme, Lough Maokeau,’ and Mherin 
eimanagh, Cavan, and other counties; and I have been indebted 
to that h^oble Lord for several examples from these districts^ 
from wbch we have derived our figure and description. A 
net IS the instrument chiefly had recourse to in that part of 
the hope is to take 
other fishes, they are usually considered an annoyance) they 
for the most part fall to the lot of tLo tuey 
preserve then fe us. in MnL 
Yet although this is the character which the Bream now 
ofT^d th' 'T' favourably 
ol It, and the value set on this fish about the year 1419 may 
L r. a n™'™ '^“6We,wh„ iufoL US . 
that date a ..ngU feb „„ valued at twenty penee, when tbe 
V r"'"” “ '"P'”"*' "" »>“ 
ixpence; from which was withdi-awn three halfpence if his food 
was supplied to him. We are told also that a pie containing 
four Bream was sent from Warwickshire to a distant part of 
oikshire at the cost of sixteen shillings; which amount included 
the wages of two men for three days in catching the fish. 
