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lent meat, yet (as I told you) it Brants 

 scales, and is, therefore, an abomination 



the line beloiu. to the JeWS. 



But scholar, there is a fish that they 

 in Lancashire boast very much of, called a CHAR; 

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

 Winander-Mere * : a mere, says Camden, (hat is the 

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

 (some say) as smooth in the bottom as if it were pared 

 with polished marble. This fish never exceeds fifteen 

 or sixteen inches in length; and it 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 

 GTJINIAD ; 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 Ches- 

 ter, 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 

 Guinia4 in the river. And now my next observation 

 shall be of the Barbel. 



that women, and even children, became anglers for them ; and, as I have 

 been told by persons who well remember it, in one day, between London- 

 bridge and Greenwich, not fewer than two thousand persons were thu 

 employed. 



* It is also found in Conningston-Mere in Lancashire* Leigh's Hist, of 

 Lantashire t 141. 



