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they fwam toward the fait Water, and then by 

 taking a Part of them again in the fame Place 

 at their Return from the Sea, which is ufually 

 about fix Months after. The like Experiment 

 hath been tried upon young Swallows, who, 

 after fix Month's Abfence, have been obferved 

 to return to the fame Chimney, there to make 

 their Habitations for the Summer following : 

 Which has inclined many to think, that every 

 Salmon ufually returns to the fame River in 

 which he was bred ; as young Pigeons taken 

 out of the fame Dove-cote, are known to re- 

 turn thither. 



The He Salmon^ ovMelter^ is ufually bigger 

 that the Spawner : He is alfo more kipper, 

 and lefs able to endure a Winter in freih Wa- 

 ter than ihe is : Yet is the Female, at thatTime 

 when fhe looks lefs kipper and better, alto- 

 gether as watery and as bad Meat as the Male. 

 But as there k no general Rule without an Ex- 

 ception, fo there are fome few Rivers in this 

 Nation, that have 'Trout s and Salmons in Sea- 

 fon in Winter. This is particularly certain of 

 the River PVye in Montnouihjhire^ where they 

 are in Seafon from September till ApriL 



ThtSalmon ufually flays not long in a Place, 

 as Trouts will, but covets ftill to go nearer the 

 Spring-head. He does not, like the Trout, 

 and many other Fifh, lie near the Water-fide, 

 or the Roots of Trees, but fwims in the deep 

 and broad Parts of the Stream, and ufually in 

 the Middle, near the Ground. It is there you 

 are to fifh for him, and that he is mofl likely 



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