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be strange to some, yet it is known to too many 

 among us to be doubted. 



And so much for these Fordidge Trouts, which 

 never afford an Angler sport, but either live their 

 time of being in the fresh water, by their meat for- 

 merly gotten in the sea, not unlike the swallow or 

 frog, or by the virtue of the fresh water only ; or 

 as the Bird of Paradise, and the Camelion are said to 

 live by the sun and the air. 



There is also in Northumberland a Trout called a 

 Bull-Trout, of a much greater length and bigness, 

 than any in these southern parts : and there are in 

 many rivers that relate to the sea, Salmon-Trouts, 

 as much different from others, both in shape and in 

 their spots, as we see sheep in some countries differ 

 one from another in their shape and bigness, and in 

 the fineness of their wool : and certainly, as some 

 pastures breed larger sheep, so do some rivers, by 

 reason of the ground over which they run, breed 

 larger Trouts. 



Now the next thing that I will commend to your 

 consideration is, that the Trout is of a more sudden 

 growth than other fish : concerning which you are 

 also to take notice, that he lives not so long as the 

 Pearch and divers other fishes do, as Sir Francis 

 Bacon hath observed in his " History of Life and 

 Death." 



And next you are to take notice, that he is not 

 like the Crocodile, which if he lives never so long, 

 yet always thrives till his death : but 'tis not so 



