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been left behind their fellows, have been found, 

 many thousands at a time, in hollow trees, or clay 

 caves, where they have been observed to live, and 

 sleep out the whole winter, without meat. And so 

 Albertus observes, That there is one kind of frog 

 that hath her mouth naturally shut up about the end 

 of August, and that she lives so all the winter : and 

 though it be strange to some, yet it is known to too 

 many among us to be doubted. 



And so much for these Fordidge Trouts, which 

 never afford an angler sport, but either live their 

 time of being in the fresh water, by their meat 

 formerly gotten in the sea, not unlike the swallow 

 or frog, or, by the virtue of the fresh water only ; 

 or, as the birds of Paradise and the cameleon are 

 said to live, by the sun and the air. 



There is also in Northumberland a Trout called 

 a Bull-trout, of a much greater length and bigness 

 than any in these southern parts ; and there are, in 

 many rivers that relate to the sea, Salmon-trouts, as 

 much different from others, both in shape and in 

 their spots, as we see sheep in some countries differ 

 one from another in their shape and bigness, and in 

 the fineness of the wool: and, certainly, as some 

 pastures breed larger sheep ; so do some rivers, by 

 reason of the ground over which they run, breed 

 larger Trouts. 



Now the next thing that I will commend to your 

 consideration is, that the Trout is of a more sudden 

 growth than other fish. Concerning which, you are 

 also to take notice, that he lives not so long as the 

 Pearch, and divers other fishes do, as Sir Francis ) 

 Bacon hath observed in his History of Life and 

 Death. 



And next you are to take notice, that he is not 

 like the Crocodile, which if he lives never so long, 

 yet always thrives till his death: but 'tis not so 



