minnow. 
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rivers. ^ family of Carps which inhabits the 
«upposili?Ti f Norway, and 
Plinv if ° Phoxinus mentioned by Aristotle and 
«cognisedTn'lm/'\^^p^'^°“^T°'’ although it is not 
ia Ooriiwnll 'f • ^ ^ Eisso. In some of the smaller streams 
°r pools n of tlie isolated ponds 
althouo'h it-^ downs of that county they abound; 
have Lp difhcult to imagine in what manner they can 
<ihtant themselves are 
■«^ater onlv f appear to be supplied with 
"=ca.l::'Au“!f “•'“■■■"r'/'’' ™rro„„ding soil „, ,he 
in these snl-t ^nt, besides the Minnows there is found 
resembles that^^f^T^^r^ species of Trout, which nearly 
these the iVT' county; and to 
the manne ®"pply of food, while 
®®oaped obsp manages to obtain subsistence has 
4eaJ, T““- P-ls must be of ancient date, but 
hy minors more than the excavations made 
lu tl fl jomote times ip their search for tin. 
there shn, i?T° inhabited by this fish it is necessary 
from the 1 fl hito which it may retire 
sensitive- ®'^^®ons, to which it is highly 
tenter ovp, frolicsome in shallower 
eniovi^ gravelly bottom; where numerous companies are 
t^hich bislffp unconscious of the danger 
"‘^nng thl? t n "^^^niies, which rush suddenly 
dispersed in as to escape are 
instructive r is their most 
®“tice that Tl’ he employed to 
of th' t, hut indeed thie are 
^ot prove thcms r°’'^ ^^ter that do 
in the earliest iormidable enemies to this little fish; for 
^hich piev un * ° v* there are larvae of insects 
^he race iLlf "" exceedingly prolific. 
Bur to e r f" hecoming extinct 
^oniarked tharthTp/ ^ ■* °f hazard, Aristotle has 
h has come ' T begins to breed almost as soon as 
voL, IV ^ existence, which is only an exaggeration of 
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