THE FOURTH DAY continued 

 The Umber or Grayling 



CHAPTER VI 

 PISCATOR 



THE Umber and Grayling are thought by some 

 to differ as the Herring and Pilchard do. But 

 though they may do so in other nations, I think 

 those in England differ nothing but in their names. 

 Aldrovandus says, they be of a Trout kind; and 

 Gesner says, that in his country, which is Switzer- 

 land, he is accounted the choicest of all fish. And 

 in Italy, he is, in the month of May, so highly 

 valued, that he is sold there at a much higher rate 

 than any other fish. The French, which call the 

 Chub Un Villain, call the Umber of the lake 

 Leman Un Umble Chevalier; and they value the 

 Umber or Grayling so highly, that they say he 

 feeds on gold ; and say, that many have been 

 caught out of their famous river of Loire, out of 

 whose bellies grains of gold have been often taken. 

 And some think that he feeds on water thyme, 

 and smells of it at his first taking out of the water ; 

 and they may think so with as good reason as we 

 do that our Smelts smell like violets at their being 

 first caught, which I think is a truth. Aldrovandus 

 no 



