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together, although the quantity of food swal- 

 lowed by them was in no wise so great." A 

 common trout has been caught in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Great Driffield, in September, 

 1832, which measured thirty-one inches in 

 length, twenty-one in girth, aud weighed 

 seventeen pounds. A trout weighing twenty- 

 five pounds was caught on the llth January, 

 1822, in a little stream, ten feet wide, branch- 

 ing from the Avon, at the back of Castle- 

 street, Salisbury. It was placed in a pond 

 and fed, but it lived only four months, and 

 had decreased in weight, at the time of its 

 death, to twenty-one pounds and a quarter. 

 The age to which trout may arrive, has not 

 been ascertained. There are two instances 

 on record; one of a trout having lived in a 

 well at Dunbarton Castle, for twenty-eight 

 years, and another of a trout that lived fifty* 

 three years in a well in an orchard of Mr. 

 William Mossop, of Board Hall, near Brough- 

 ton-in-Furness. The Thames, at various 

 places, produces trout of very large size. 

 Among the best localities, may be named 

 Kingston, opposite to the public-house called 

 the Angler, Hampton-court bridge and weir, 

 and the weirs at Shepperton and Chertsey.* 



* " The art of fishing for trout from the tops of the weirs 

 of the river Thames, is, I may venture to say, confined to 



