The Fourth Day 119 



But in these I have no great faith ; yet grant it 

 probable ; and have had from some chymical men, 

 namely, from Sir George Hastings and others, an 

 affirmation of them to be very advantageous. But 

 no more of these ; especially not in this place. 



I might here, before I take my leave of the 

 Salmon, tell you, that there is more than one sort 

 of them, as namely, a Tecon, and another called in 

 some places a Samlet, or by some a Skegger '; but 

 these, and others which I forbear to name, may be 

 fish of another kind, and differ as we know a 

 Herring and a Pilchard do, which, I think, are as 

 different as the rivers in which they breed, and 

 must, by me, be left to the disquisitions of men of 

 more leisure, and of greater abilities than I profess 

 myself to have. 



And lastly, I am to borrow so much of your 

 promised patience, as to tell you, that the trout, or 

 Salmon, being in season, have, at their first taking 

 out of the water, which continues during life, their 

 bodies adorned, the one with such red spots, and 

 the other with such black or blackish spots, as give 

 them such an addition of natural beauty as, I think, 

 was never given to any woman by the artificial paint 

 or patches in which they so much pride themselves 

 in this age. And so I shall leave them both ; and 

 proceed to some observations of the Pike. 



