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Now both these flies, and I believe many others, though 

 I think not all, are certainly and demonstratively bred 

 in the very rivers where they are taken : our cadis or 

 cod-bait which lie under stones in the bottom of the 

 water, most of them turning into those two flies, and 

 being gathered in the husk, or crust, near the time of 

 their maturity, are very easily known and distinguished, 

 and are of all other, the most remarkable, both for their 

 size, as being of all other the biggest, the shortest of 

 them being a full inch long or more ; and for the execution 

 they do, the trout and grayling being much more greedy 

 of them than of any others ; and indeed the trout never 

 feeds fat, nor comes into his perfect season, till these 

 flies come in. 



Of these the GREEN-DRAKE never discloses from his 

 husk, till he be first there grown to full maturity, body, 

 wings, and all ; and then he creeps out of his cell, but 

 with his wings so crimpt and ruffled, by being prest 

 together in that narrow room, that they are, for some 

 hours totally useless to him ; by which means he is 

 compelled either to creep upon the flags, sedges, and 

 blades of grass, if his first rising from the bottom of 

 the water be near the banks of the river, till the air and 

 sun stiffen and smooth them : or, if his first appearance 

 above water happen to be in the middle, he then lies 

 upon the surface of the water like a ship at hull ; for his 

 feet are totally useless to him there, and he cannot creep 

 upon the water as the STONE-FLY can, until his wings 

 have got stiffness to fly with (if by some trout or grayling 

 he be not taken in the interim, which ten to one he is), 

 and then his wings stand high, and closed exact upon 

 his back, like the butterfly, and his motion in flying is 

 the same. His body is, in some, of a paler, in others, of a 

 darker yellow ; for they are not all exactly of a colour, 

 ribbed with rows of green, long, slender, and growing 

 sharp towards the tail, at the end of which he has three 



