chap, iv.] THE COMPLETE ANGLER. f,9 



know not ; and this may be believed of the Fordidge 

 Trout, which, as it is said of the Stork, Jerem. viii. 

 7, that " he knows his season," so he knows his 

 times, I think almost his day of coming into that 

 river out of the sea ; where he lives, and, it is like, 

 feeds, nine months of the year, and fasts three in the 

 river of Fordidge. And you are to note that those 

 townsmen are very punctual in observing the time 

 of beginning to fish for them ; and boast much that 

 their river affords a Trout, that exceeds all others. 

 And just so does Sussex boast of several fish ; as 

 namely, a Shelsey Cockle, a Chichester Lobster, an 

 Arundel Mullet, and an Amerly Trout. 



And now for some confirmation of the Fordidge 

 Trout : you are to know that this Trout is thought 

 to eat nothing in the fresh water ; and it may be the 

 better believed, because it is well known, that swal- 

 lows, and bats, and wagtails, which are called half- 

 year birds, and not seen to fly in England for six 

 months in the year, but about Michael- 

 mas leave us for a hotter climate; yet View Sir Fran. 



Bacon, Exper. 

 some of them that have been left be- 899. 



hind their fellows, have been found 



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



caves ; where they have been observed to five and 



sleep out the whole winter without meat. And so 



Albertus observes, that there is one 



kind of frog that hath her mouth na- f roo - s _ 



turally shut up about the end of August, 



and that she lives so all the winter : and though it 



