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Title: A history of the fishes of the British Islands
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Couch, Jonathan, 1789-1870 Lydon, A. F
Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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. 406. CuviEK. Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 187. Yakeell; Br. Fishes, vol. i, p. 382. There are only some particular situations wliere the Lakeor Carp Bream is founds but where it meets with a congenialsoil and water, its numbers increase in a remarkable degree.And although, sensitive to the variation of seasons, there isnothing in the climate of the United Kingdom that is hurtfulto it; for as regards cold they abound even at the most northernparts of Norway, while with ourselves they associate in com-panies, and are lively in the warmest summers. But neither aswiftly-flowing stream nor pebbly bottom are suitable, and theychiefly rejoice in still water with a bottom of soft soil, whetherin lakes and jjonds or rivers. Nilsson remarks that they inSweden are sure to be found where the pond-weed Isoeteslacustris grows; but slimy food, with other digestible vegetables,serves them for nourishment, and they devoiir with eagerness thepaste prepared for them by anglers, by which they are attracted
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LAKE BREAM. 37 to a spot where they are to be fished for, and where they seizethe worms with which the hooks are baited. Izaak Waltongives directions for the successful practice of fishing for theseBream, for information concerning which we refer to the well-known and amusing volume of this patriarch of fishermen.They are not found in Cornwall or Devonshire. Flemingmentions it indefinitely, as being found in Scotland; and hequotes Pennant as authority for its inhabiting Loch Maben;but it seems not to be an inhabitant of the far north of thatkingdom. Leland also says in his own quaint language that in Wales,not far from Breckenok, in Llin Senatham; which is in bredtha mile, and a two miles of length, and whcr as it is depest athirteen fadoni, it berith as the principale fisch a great numbreof Bremes, and they appere in May in mighti seniles. So thatsumtime they broke large nettes; and ons frayed apjiereth notin the bryme of the water that yere againe. By favour of the Earl of Enniskill

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