CHAP. IT. THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 143" 



observes, That there is one kind of frog that hath her 



mouth naturally shut up about the end 



of August, and that she lives so all the &.*?"** f 



winter : and though it be strange to some, 



yet it is known to too many among us to be doubted t. 



And so much for these Fordidge Trout s, which never 

 afford an angler sport ; but either live, their time of 

 being in the fresh water, by their meat formerly gotten 

 in the sea, (not unlike the swallow or frog,) or, by 

 the virtue of the fresh water only, or, as the birds of 

 Paradise and the cameleon are said to live, by the sun- 

 and the air *. 



There is also in Northumberland a Trout called a 

 Bull-trout, of a much greater length and bigness than 

 any in these southern parts. And there are, in many 

 rivers that relate to the sea, Salmon-i routs, as much dif- 

 ferent from others, both in shape and in their spots, as 

 we see sheep in some countries differ one from another, 

 in their shape and bigness and in the fineness of their 

 wool. And, certainly, as some pastures breed larger 

 sheep ; so do some rivers, by reason of the ground over 

 which they run, breed larger Trouts. 



Now the next thing that I will commend to your 

 consideration is, That the Trout is of a more sudden 

 growth than other fish. Concerning which, you are 

 also to take notice, that he lives not so long as the 

 Pearch, and divers other fishes do ; as Sir Francis 

 Bacon hath observed in his History of Life and Death. 



And next you are to take notice, That he is not 



* Ed'ward Tops el was the author of a History of four-footed Beasts and 

 Serpents collected out of the works of Gesner, and other authors in fo- 

 lio, Lond. 1658. In this history, he describes the several kinds of frogs; 

 and in page 721 thereof, cites from Albert the fact here related. See an 

 account of him in Walton's Life. 



f See Chap. VIII. 



\ That the Cameleon lives by the air alone is a vulgar error, it beingp 

 well known that its food is flies and other insects. See Sir Tho. Brown'*. 

 Enquiry into vulgar and common Errors, Book III. Chap. 21. About the year 

 1780, a living Cameleon was to be seen in the garden of the Company of 

 Apothecaries at Chelsea. And, ;it this time, (1784.) an exanimated one, 

 in a state of excellent preservation, is open to public view among the quad- 

 rupeds in Sir Ashton Lever's inestimable collection of natural curiosities* 

 See page 108, ante, n. 



