43 best's art of angling. 



These fish shift their quarters to spawn, and, 

 like the Salmon, make up to\v'ards the heads of 

 rivers to deposit their roes. 



The rivers most famous for trout are the Keri" 

 net near Hinigerford in Berkshire ; the Stowevy 

 in Kent J which runs xhxongii Canterhurij, and is 

 said to breed the best trouts in the south-east of 

 England, those in the Wandle, near Cashalton 

 in Surry ; the Amerhf^ in Sussex ; the Dote, fVije, 

 Lathkin, and Bradford, in Derbyshire-^ Ribhle 

 and Irk, in Lancashire; and in the Usk and 

 Wi/e, in Monmouthshire, are accounted excellent 

 trouts ; but to speak impartially, no one can ab- 

 solutely determine in what particular river or 

 brook are the most and best trouts. This, how- 

 ever, is certain, that trouts are better or w^orse, 

 bigger or less, according to the nature of the 

 soil on which the river runs: pure clear, trans- 

 parent streams, running on rocks, pebbles, or 

 more especially lime-stones or flijits, are experi- 

 mentally found to breed, and afford the most 

 delicate and best trouts. 



The hook No 2 or 3. 



THYMALLUS, 



The Gragling, Grayling, or Umber; this fish 

 has three different names given it, according to 

 the different parts of England where it is found; 

 he is by no means a general fish, and what 

 anglers seldom meet with, except in the rivers 

 Dove and Trent, and some other small streams, 

 particularly in that which runs by Salisbury. 

 The haunts of the grayling are nearly the same 

 of the trout; and in fishing for either of them, 



