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notice, that in several countries, as in Germany and 

 in other parts, compared to our's, fish do differ 

 much in their bigness, and shape, and other ways, 

 and so do Trouts. It is well known that in the Lake 

 Leman, the Lake of Geneva, there are Trouts taken of 

 three cuhits long, as is affirmed by Gesner, a writer 

 of good credit ; and Mercator says, the Trouts that 

 are taken in the Lake of Geneva, are a great part of 

 the merchandise of that famous city. And you are 

 further to know, that there be certain waters, that 

 breed Trouts remarkable both for their number and 

 smallness. I know a little brook in Kent, that breeds 

 them to a number incredible, and you may take 

 them twenty or forty in an hour, but none greater 

 than about the size of a gudgeon. There are also in 

 divers rivers, especially that relate to, or be near 

 to the sea, as Winchester, or the Thames about Wind- 

 sor, a little Trout called a Samlet or Skegger- 



Trout, — in both which places I have caught twenty 

 or forty at a standing, — that will bite as fast and as 

 freely as minnows ; these be by some taken to be 



