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such strange fish and heasts are also bred, that no 

 man can give a name to, as Grotius, in his Sopkom, 

 and others, have observed. 



But whither am I strayed in this discourse ? I 

 ■will end it by telling you, that at the mouth of 

 some of these rivers of our's, Herrings are so plen- 

 tiful, as namely, near to Yarmouth in Norfolk, and 

 in the west-country, Pilchers so very plentiful, as 

 you will wonder to read what our learned Camden 

 relates of them in his Britannia, p. 178, 186. 



Well, Scholar, I will stop here, and tell you 

 what by reading and conference I have observed 

 concerning Fish-ponds. 



