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THE COMPLETE ANGLEH. 



PART I. 



the eyes. Salvian* takes him to be called Umber from 

 his swift swimming or gliding out of sight, more like a 

 shadow or a ghost than a fish. Much more might be 

 said both of his smell and taste : but I shall only tell 

 you, that St. Ambrose, the glorious bishop of Milan, 

 who lived when the church kept fasting-days, calls him 

 the flower-fish, or flower of fishes ; and that he was so 

 far in love with him, that he would not let him pass 

 without the honour of a long discourse. But I must, 

 and pass on to, tell you how to take this dainty fish. 



First note, That he grows not to the bigness of a 

 Trout; for the biggest of them do not usually ex- 

 ceed eighteen inches. He lives in such rivers as the 

 Trout does; and is usually taken with the same 

 baits as the Trout is, and after the same manner, 

 for he will bite both at the minnow, or worm, or 

 fly, though he bites not often at the minnow, and 

 is very gamesome at the fly; and much simpler, 



* JJipfoliio Satvianz, an Italian physician of the sixteenth century; 

 he wrote a treatise De Piscibus, cum eorum Jigvris; and died at Rome, 

 1572, aged 59. 



