68 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [part j. 



young Salmons, but in those waters they never grow 

 to be bigger than a herring. 



There is also in Kent near to Canterbury , a Trout 

 called there a Fordidge Trout, a Trout that bears the 

 name of the town where it is usually caught, that 

 is accounted the rarest of fish ; many of them near 

 the bigness of a salmon, but known by their differ- 

 ent colour, and in their best season they cut very 

 white : and none of these have been known to be 

 caught with an angle, unless it were one that was 

 caught by Sir George Hastings, an excellent Angler, 

 and now with God ; and he hath told me, he thought 

 that Trout bit not for hunger but wantonness ; and 

 it is the rather to be believed, because both he then, 

 and many others before him, have been curious to 

 search into their bellies, what the food was by which 

 they lived : and have found out nothing by which 

 they might satisfy their curiosity. 



Concerning which you are to take notice, that it 

 is reported by good authors, that Grashoppers, and 

 some fish, have no mouths, but are nourished and 

 take breath by the porousness of their gills, man 

 knows not how ; and this may be believed, if we 

 consider that when the raven hath hatched her 

 eggs, she takes no further care, but leaves her 

 young ones to the care of the God of Nature, who is 

 said in the Psalms, Psal. clxvii. 9, " To feed the 

 " young ravens that call upon him." And they be 

 kept alive, and fed by a dew, or worms that breed 

 in their nests ; or some other wavs that we mortals 



