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fly made of the red feathers of a parakita, a strange 

 outlandish bird ; and he will rise at a fly not unlike a 

 gnat or a small moth, or indeed at most flies that are 

 not too big. He is a fish that lurks close all winter, 

 but is very pleasant and jolly after mid-April, and in 

 May, and in the hot months : he is of a very fine shape, 

 his flesh is white ; his teeth, those little ones that he 

 has, are in his throat, yet he has so tender a mouth, that 

 he is oftener lost after an angler has hooked him, than 

 any other fish. Though there be many of these fishes 

 in the delicate River Dove and Trent, and some other 

 small rivers, as that which runs by Salisbury, yet he 

 is not so general a fish as the trout, nor to me so good 

 to eat or to angle for. And so I shall take my leave 

 of him ; and now come to some observations of the 

 salmon, and how to catch him. 



