132 The Address to the Reader. . 



of the other fish; which I may take a 

 liberty to commend, because they concern 

 not myself. 



" Next let me tell the Reader, that in 

 that which is the more useful part of this 

 Discourse, that is to say, the observations 

 of the nature and breeding, and seasons, 

 and catching of Fish, I am not so simple 

 as not to know, that a captious Reader 

 may find exceptions against something 

 said of some of these; and therefore I 

 must entreat him to consider, that expe- 

 rience teaches us to know, that several 

 Countries alter the time, and I think 

 almost the manner, of fishes breeding, 

 but doubtless of their being in season ; 

 as may appear by three Rivers in Mon- 

 mouthshire, namely Severn, Wie, and 

 Usk, where Cambden (Brit. f. 633)* 

 observes, that in the River Wie, Salmon 

 are in season from Sept. to April, and we 

 are certain, that in Thames and Trent, 

 and in most other Rivers they be in 

 season the six hotter months. t 



" Now for the Art of catching fish, that 

 is to say, how to make a man that was 



* The editor of one edition of Walton turns 

 (Brit. f. 633) into (British Fishes, 633). 



f If Walton had known the Wye as he did the 

 Thames and Trent, he would have corrected the 

 celebrated author of the Britannia. 



