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hive-honey, and anoint your bait therewith, and it 

 will doubtless draw the fish to it." 



The other is this : " Vulnera hederae grandis- 

 simse inflicta sudant balsamum oleo gelato, albi- 

 cantique persimile, odoris vero longe suavissimi." 1 



T is supremely sweet to any fish, and yet assa- 

 fbetida may do the like. 



But in these things I have no great faith, yet 

 grant it probable, and have had from some chemi- 

 cal men, namely, from Sir George Hastings and 

 others, an affirmation of them to be very advan- 

 tageous. But no more of these, especially not in 

 this place. 



I might here, before I take my leave of the 

 salmon, tell you that there is more than one sort of 

 them, as namely a tecon, and another called in 

 some places a samlet, or by some a skegger. But 

 these, and others which I forbear to name, may be 

 fish of another kind, and differ as we know a her- 

 ring and a pilchard do ; which I think are as dif- 

 ferent as the rivers in which they breed, and must 

 by me be left to the disquisitions of men of more 

 leisure and of greater abilities than I profess my- 

 self to have. 



And lastly, I am to borrow so much ot your 

 promised patience as to tell you that the trout or 

 salmon, being in season, have, at their first taking 

 out of the water, which continues during life, their 

 bodies adorned, the one with such red spots and 



1 "Slit the largest branches of an ivy tree, and it will yield 

 an oleaginous balsam, white in color and of a pleasing odor." 



