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cuinlocutions, for brevity sake, I shall range the 

 trout under the consideration of the first classis 

 offish. For that end, I must signalize his viva- 

 city and vigour, his activity and courage, how 

 naturally they spring from the nature of this 

 fish, till age or accident indispose and deprive 

 him, not only of activity, but of natural ability ; 

 who struggles with himself to out- do motion, 

 and out-live, if possible, the law of his life. So 

 that to prohibite him travel, you totally destroy 

 him ; since he is a fish that can't live under 

 confinement. And thus it happens to the race 

 of salmon, for nature's laws are alike to both. 

 In the summer's solstice he accosts the fords, 

 making inspection and inquisition after the va- 

 riety of emmits and insects, hovering his fins in 

 every murmuring purling stream in rivers and 

 rivulets, which not only puts a spur to the an- 

 gler's exercise, but his expectation also : and this, 

 if any thing, is the angler's Elizium, which I 

 shall not insist upon here, because having in- 

 larged upon it sufficiently already. In this place 

 I shall only treat of the ground -bait, which 

 most commonly is a knotted or budled dew- 

 worm ; much of the nature and kind of the 

 former, but not usually so large as that we pro- 

 cure for the salmon. 



Now as every angler concludes the trout a 

 delicate fish for diversion, so others, as artists, 



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