Excerpt from The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. 9: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts Of the other fish, as regards their habitats, having paid less attention to them, I have little information of any value to offer. The pike, perch, and eel are of very common occur rence. The eel, indeed, is found in almost every lake and river in the district, and even in the mountain tarns. The minnow and thornback are also widely diffused in both lake and river. The tench and roach are less frequently met with, and are confined chiefly to ponds into which they have been introduced, brought from other counties. The barbel, too, is of rare occurrence as a river fish. And the same remark ap plies to the smelt, an estuary migratory fish. Hitherto I have heard of it as taken only in the estuary of the Kent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.