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seven. The scales are rough, hard, and detached 
with difficulty. 
The Common Percli {Perea fluviatilis^ Linn .) 
is well known, not only to the angler, but to 
almost every country child ; for it inhabits most 
of our lakes and rivers, especially where the 
banks are steep, and is so bold as to bite at nearly 
any bait. Hence this is usually the first fish 
that rewards the infant angler’s enterprise. 
It scarcely yields to any of our native Fishes in 
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beauty ; its form is compact and powerful, and 
its colours attractive, especially when seen through 
i the clear water in which it is playing. Its aspect. 
