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frefli water fi£h : their roes are even held poifonous ; for 
they affect; thole who unwarily eat them, with a naufea, 
vomiting, and purging *. 
*fhe 'Tench f . 
The l;ench is unnoticed in the writings of all the an- 
cients before -dufoitius ; and by him i t is mentioned in 
fuch terms of difrefpeft, as (hews the capricioulhefs of 
tafte ; 
Quis non et virides vulgi folatia 'Tineas 
Norit ? 
Wilhughby mentions the infalublity of this fiftl, on 
account of which, it was unanimouily condemned by the 
medical people of his time ; he denies, however, that 
it is ungrateful to the tafte ; polferity have been of the 
fame' opinion, and have gratified their palates with it 
without feeling any bad effbdts. 
The refidence of the tench is either in ftagnated or 
running water ; although it is taken in the Tiber, a pret- 
ty rapid fb-eam, it feems to have migrated there front 
the adjoining lakes J. There is laid to exift a wonder- 
ful 
* Britiih Zoologjr, gen. 40. 
f l,a Tanche, Beion. Cyprinus pinna ani radiiB 25. Lin. Syft. 
f It is now naturalifed in England, where it lias been imported from 
its native lakes in the fouth of Europe We have already noticed with 
regret, that the ingenuity of man has made fo little progrefs in the do. 
mefUcation of filhes ; this and the carp being the only fpecies of near five 
bundled, that have been brought intp that Hate. 
