CHAPTER VI 



Observations of the Umber or Qrayling^ and ^Directions 

 how to Fish for them. 



ISC. The umber and grayling are thought by some 

 to differ, as the herring and pilchard do. But 

 though they may do so in other nations, I think 

 those in England differ in nothing but their names. 

 Aldrovandus says they be of a trout kind ; and 

 Gesner says, that in his country (which is in 

 Switzerland) he is accounted the choicest of all 

 fish. And in Italy, he is in the month of May so highly valued, 

 that he is sold at a much higher rate than any other fish. The 

 French (which call the chub un vilairi) call the umber of the lake 

 Leman un umble chevalier ; and they value the umber or grayling so 

 highly, that they say he feeds on gold, and say that many have been 

 caught out of their famous river Loire, and of whose bellies grains 

 of gold have been often taken. And some think that he feeds on 



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