CHUB, 
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int England; and if any attempt has been made to 
not ° these districts — of which, however, we have 
ind information— it has not been successful. Nor 
atte^^ ' except for curiosity, is its conveyance likely to be 
that'^is^^rt the Chub does not possess a reputation as food 
Roman n a'” ^n^ince_ any one to venture the task. The 
charactpr Ausomus in a few verses bestows on it this 
naiacter of being little worth, when he says:— 
“In weedy sands the scale-clad Chub deliehts: 
s sides thick-studded with sharp reed-like bones, 
iNor can we keep its flesh beyond six hours: 
by particular we must offer a correction to what 
MuH ! advanced when speaking of the Grey 
Qf ^Ee Chub and not the Mullet, that in the poetry 
porti hears the name of Capito. The most esteemed 
or tv\^ supposed to be the head, the stoutness 
jq , ^ i-he sides of which appear to have given occasion 
Iangu^o”^^^ perhaps in the English as in the Latin 
of E portions of the continent 
uiope, and so far north as Sweden and a portion of Finland; 
eut It IS not a native of Ireland. 
veget\f^'^^’ generality of the Carps, feeds much on 
the l '^ l!*’ eagerly devours insects, and readily takes 
the yhen baited ivith a worm or molluscous animal; but 
causht^*^ °u ^“Shng for it, as well as of cooking it when 
This h Walton, 
in th’p ^ extent, we prefer to give as recorded 
stated of St. Albans:-“The Chevyn is a 
fysshe ^ tleyty morsell. There is noo 
bicausp^h ®tfongly enarmyed wyth scalys on the body. And 
hen thv ® by ter he hath the more baytes, which 
are va ^ ^teed not specify the whole of these, as they 
seen in^^fh ^ year; but a sample of them may be 
bodv r ^ yettge frogshys the three fete kitte of by the 
and its three feet cut off close to the body,] 
and the fourth close to the knee.” 
Tl^ spawning is early in the summer. 
■Was i described, which was obtained from Yorkshire, 
fourteen inches, and in depth in a straight line 
