258 THE RIVER-SIDE NATURALIST. 



Wie or Guie, it is found by common experience that the 

 salmon of this river is in season when the like fish to be 

 found in all other rivers is abandoned and out of use, 

 whereof we of the east parts doo not a little marvell." 



Of the Thames he says : " What should I speake of the 

 fat and sweet salmons dailie taken in the streams of this 

 noble river, and that in such plentie, after the time of the 

 smelt be past, as no river in Europe is able to exceed 

 it. What store, also, of barbel, trouts, chevins, pearches, 

 breames, roches, daces, gudgeons, flounders, shrimps, &c., 

 as are commonly to be had therein ! " And then he says : 

 " From the insatiable avarice of fishermen, how this famous 

 river is defrauded, yet complaineth of no want, but the 

 more it loseth at one time, the more it yieldeth at another ; 

 only in carps it seemeth to be scant, but it is not long since 

 that kind of fish is brought over to Englande." And he 

 concludes thus : " Oh that this river might be spared but 

 even for one year from nets." 



THE SEA-TROUT. 



The SEA-TROUT (Sa/mo trutid). There is a difference 

 of opinion amongst ichthyologists and others as to whether 

 there is only one, or whether there are more than one, 

 species of sea-trout indigenous to the British waters. 



THE SEA-TROUT. 



Are we to consider Salmo trutta and Salmo cambricus as 

 two distinct species, or are we to take L)r. Day's view, that 

 these two fish are one and the same, dividing them into a 

 northern and a southern race ? 



