130 5'/^^BRITISH ANGLER. P.II. 



r&fembling a Hawk's Beak, which hinders 

 their feeding, and occafions them in Time to 

 pine away and die. It is obferved, that the 

 Salmon may live thus one Year from the Sea : 

 But he grows infipid and taftelefs, and lofes 

 both his Blood and Strength, and the fecond 

 Year he certainly dies. And it is alfo obferved, 

 that thofe little Salmons called Skeggers^ which 

 abound in many Rivers which run into the 

 Sea, arebred by fuch fickly *S^/w^;/j that did 

 not go to the Sea; and that though they a- 

 bound, yet they never thrive to any confider- 

 able Bignefs. 



But if the old Sahnon gets to the Sea, then 

 that Griftle which Ihews him to be kipper 

 wears away, or is call off, as the Eagle is faid 

 to caft off his Bill. The Fifli recovers his 

 Strength, and comes next Summer to the fame 

 River, if poflible, to renew the Enjoyment of 

 his former Plcafures. Thus, this King of the 

 Rivers, like other Monarchs and great Pcr- 

 fons, who have both their Winter and Sum- 

 mer Seats, has the freih Rivers for Summer, 

 and the fait Water for Winter, to fpend his 

 Life in •, which, as Lord Bacon Qhitxyt^ in his 

 Hiftory of Life and Deaths is not above ten 

 Years. It is to be obferved, that though the 

 Salmon grows big in the Sea, yet he grows 

 fat only in frefh Rivers ; and that the far- 

 ther they get from the Sea, the fatter and better 

 they are. 



Though the Salmons make very hard Shift 

 to get out of the freih Rivers into the Sea ; 



yet 



