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day, in these limpid and transparent streams of 

 Hay, I was constrained, in regard of the exces- 

 sive heat, to relinquish her inflam'd sandy shores, 

 to seek umbrage (where I could get it) from 

 some shady trees ; but none I found there to 

 harbour and relieve me. However, by this time 

 I recovered a meadow, which generously com- 

 moded me with a hauthorn-bush that nature had 

 planted by the river side (which served me for 

 sanctuary) whose dilating boughs, spreading as 

 an umbrella, they defended me from the scorch- 

 ing strokes of the sun, where also I lay closely 

 conceal'd, the better to inspect nature's curiosi- 

 ties. 



For whilst reposing my self under this tiffany 

 shade of diversified leaves and flourishing twigs, 

 that hovered over the brinks of this amorous 

 Hay ; on a sudden I discovered a very large sal- 

 mon, leisurely swimming towards the leeward- 

 shore ; and having considered the sun at his me- 

 ridian, I thought it needless to provoke her with 

 fly, or any thing else, more especially at such a 

 time when I knew her indisposed to divert her 

 self either with food or frolick. Where, note, 

 the more circumspectly I traced her with my 

 eyes to pursue her, the more and greater still 

 was my admiration, because to mark her from 

 place to place, till at last I saw her arrive on a bed 



of sand, which scarcely, to my apprehension, co- 



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