14:2 THE COMPLETE ANG&&IU PART I. 



some fish have no mouths, but are nourished and take 

 breath by the porousness of their gills, man knows not 

 how: And this may be believed, if we consider that 

 when the raven hath hatched her eggs, she takes no far- 

 ther care, but leaves her young ones to the care of the 

 God of nature, \vho is said in the Psalms, " To feed 

 <c the young ravens that call upon him ;" and (hey be 

 kept alive and fed, by a. dew ; or, worms that breed 

 in their nests ; or, some other ways that we mortals 

 know not. And this may be believed of the Fordidge 

 Trout, which as it is said of the stork, that he knows 

 his season, so he knows his times, I think almost his 

 day of coming into that river out of the sea ; where he 

 lives, and (it is like) feeds, nine months of the year ; 

 and fasts three in the river of Fordidge. And you are to 

 note, that those townsmen are very punctual in observing 

 the time of beginning to fish for them ; and boast much, 

 that their river affords a Trout that exceeds all others. 

 And just so does Sussex boast of several fish ; as name- 

 ly, a Shelsty Cockle, a Chickester Lobster, znArundel 

 Mullet, and an Amerley Trout. 



And, now, for some confirmation of the Fordidge 

 Trout : you are to know, That this Trout is thought ta 

 eat nothing in the fresh water ; and it may be the better 

 believed, because it is well known, that swallows, and 

 bats, and wagtails which are called half-year birds, 

 and not seen to fly in England for six months in the 

 year, but, about Michaelmas, leave us for a hotter cli- 

 riiiv Sir Fran, mate yet some of them that have been left 

 Bacon, Exptr. behind their fellows, have been found, many 

 *" thousands at a time, in hollow trees, or clay 



caves ; where they have been observed to live, and sleep 

 out the whole winter, without meat. And soAlbertus* 



a white fermented froth, which the country people call Cuckotv's Spit : 

 in these the eggs of the gra'shopper are deposited ; and if you examine 

 them, you shall never fail of finding a yellowish insect, of about the size 

 and shape of a grain of wheat, which, doubtless, is the young grashopper. 

 A passage to this purpose, is in Leigh's History of Lancashire, page 148. 



* Albertus Magnus^ a German Dominican, anid a very learned man ; Ur- 

 ban IV. compelled him to accept of the bishoprick of Ratisbon. He wrote 

 a treatise -on the 'Secrets of Nature t and twenty other volumes in folio; ancU 

 died at Cologne^ 1280. 



