CHAP. IV. THE COMPLETE ANGLER. I4l 



that are taken in the lake of Geneva, are a great part of 

 the merchandize of that famous city. And you are 

 further to know, that there be certain waters that breed 

 Trouts remarkable, both for their number and small- 

 ness. I know a little brook in Kent, that breeds them to 

 a number incredible, and you may take them twenty or 

 forty in an hour, but none greater than about the size 

 of a Gudgeon. There are also, in divers rivers -espe- 

 cially that relate to, or be near to the sea, as Winchester; 

 or, the Thames about Windsor a little Trout called a 

 Samlet, or Ske^ger Trout ; in both which places I have 

 caught twenty or forty at a standing ; that will bite as 

 fast and as fr< ely as Minnows : These be by some taken 

 to be young Salmons ; but, in those waters they never 

 grow to be bigger than a Herring. 



There is also in Kent) near to Canterbury, a Trout 

 called there a Fordidge Trout, a Trout that bears the 

 name of the town where it is usually caught, that is ac- 

 counted the rarest of fish ; many of them near the big- 

 ness of a Salmon, but known by their different colour ; 

 and in their best season they cut very white : And 

 none of these have been known to be caught with an 

 angle, unless it were one that was caught by Sir George 

 Hastings, an excellent angler, and now with God : and 

 he hath told me, he thought THAT Trout bit not for 

 hunger but wantonness ; and it is the rather to be be- 

 lieved, because both he, then, and many others before 

 him, have been curious to search into their bellies, 

 what the food was by which they lived ; and have 

 found out nothing by which they might satisfy their 

 curiosity. 



Concerning which you are to take notice, that it rs 

 reported by good Authors, That grashoppers *, and 



* It has been said by naturalists particularly by Sir Theodore May- 

 erne, in an Epistle to Sir William Paddy , prefixed to the translation of 

 Mouffet's Insiet. Tbeatr. printed with Topsel's History of four-footed Stasis 

 and Serpents that the grashopper has no mouth, but a pipe in his breast, 

 through which it sucks the dew, which is its nutriment. There are two 

 sorts, the green and the dun ; some say there is a tihird, of a yellowish 

 green. They are found in long grass, from June to the end of September, 

 and even in October, if the weather be mild. In the middle of May, you 

 will see in the joints of rosemary, thistles, and almost all the larger weed* 



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