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worm, but especially a little bluish worm, gotten 

 out of marsh-ground or meadows, which should 

 be well scoured. But this, though it be most ex- 

 cellent meat, yet it wants scales, and is, as I told 

 you, therefore an abomination to the Jews. 



But, scholar, there is a fish that they in Lan- 

 cashire boast very much of, called a char, taken 

 there, and I think there only, in a mere called 

 Winander-Mere, a mere, says Camden, that is 

 the largest in this nation, being ten miles in length, 

 and some say as smooth in the bottom as if it 

 were paved with polished marble. This fish never 

 exceeds fifteen or sixteen inches in length, and 

 't is spotted like a trout, and has scarce a bone but 

 on the back. But this, though I do not know 

 whether it make the angler sport, yet I would have 

 you take notice of it, because it is a rarity, and of 

 so high esteem with persons of great note. 



Nor would I have you ignorant of a rare fish 

 called a guiniad, of which I shall tell you what 

 Camden and others speak. The river Dee, which 

 runs by Chester, springs in Merionethshire ; and as 

 it runs toward Chester it runs through Pemble- 

 Mere, which is a large water ; and it is observed 

 that though the river Dee abounds with salmon, 

 and Pemble-Mere with the guiniad, yet there is 

 never any salmon caught in the mere, nor a guiniad 

 in the river. And now my next observation shall 

 be of the barbel. 



