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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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ht in his native Ireland;but there appears to exist along the northern shores of theMediterranean, so far east as Greece, a more regular fisheryfor Eels than with us; and it is there carried on fromMichaelmas to the Feast of the Kings, chiefly by means ofwicker baskets sunk in the sea. When caught the fish arekilled by being buried in salt; and then they are salted inbulk in thi-ee divisions according to their size; the first beingsuch as weigh from a pound and a half to seven jjounds, andthe third from two ounces to half a pound. With us thesmaller Eels are sometimes potted or maranaded; but we havereason to know that Congers ofunfi-equently made to pass for Eelsthe cookery and sale of Eels at Naples may be seen in Dr.Badhams work, entitled Fish Tattle. According to their usual growth, an example that weighshalf a dozen pounds is considered large; but there are instanceson record which have greatly exceeded this. A fishermanbrought the information of one, which was the largest he had
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STIATiP-NOSKT) EEL. 307 ever seen, and weighed ten pounds. One whicli was caughtin Hackney River, is noticed to have been of the weight oftwenty-seven pounds, and there is a notice of an example takenin the Mcdway, not far from Rochester, which weighed thirty-four pounds, and measured six feet in length, with a girth oftwenty-five inches; but even this is exceeded by an instancementioned by Mr. Daniel, of one taken in Kent, which weighedforty pounds, and in length measured five feet nine inches,but, strangely, its girth is said to be (only) eighteen inches.I possess a printed note of one that weighed sixty-two pounds;but I must confess that I regard this as apocryphal. Thegeneral proportions of this fish are lengthened, flexible, atfirst round, compressed backwards from the vent. The headrounded over the top, from a meeting of the muscles of theface, tapering forward to the snout, which is moderately slender,and at its point are two sharp perforated barbs; another obscurepair of nostr

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