COMPLETE ANGLER LIBRARY. IZAAK WALTON AND CHARLES COTTON. SOLD BY THOMAS TEGG, 73, CHEAPSIDE; R. JENNINGS, POULTRY, LONDON: AND RICHARD GRIFFIN AND CO. GLASGOW. 1824. THE COMPLETE ANGLER. CEL.COLL. PART I. BRARY. CHAP. XI. Observations on the TENCH, and Advice how to Piscator. THE Tench, the physician of fishes, is observed to love ponds better than rivers, and to love pits better than either: yet Camden observes, there is a river in Dorsetshire that abounds with Tenches, but doubtless they retire to the most deep and quiet places in it. This fish hath very large fins, very small and smooth scales, a red circle about his eyes, which are big and of a gold colour, and from either angle of his mouth there hangs down a little barb. In every Tench's head there are two little stones which foreign physicians make great use of, but he is not commended for wholesome meat, though there be very much use made of them for outward VOL. II. B 24557 |