The Compleat ^Angler 



they have swimmed towards the salt water, and then by taking a 

 part of them again with the known mark at the same place at their 

 return from the sea, which is usually about six months after ; and 

 the like experiment hath been tried upon young swallows, who have, 

 after six months' absence, been observed to return to the same chimney, 

 there to make their nests and habitations for the summer following : 

 which has inclined many to think, that every salmon usually returns 

 to the same river in which it was bred, as young pigeons taken out of 

 the same dovecote have also been observed to do. 



And you are yet to observe farther, that the he- salmon is usually 

 bigger than the spawner ; and that he is more kipper, and less able 

 to endure a winter in the fresh water than she is : yet she is, at that 

 time of looking less kipper and better, as watery, and as bad meat. 



And yet you are to observe that as there is no general rule without 

 an exception, so there are some few rivers in this nation that have 

 trouts and salmons in season in winter, as it is certain there be in the 



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