The Compleat ^Angler 



like and more unusual shapes, are very often taken on the mouths of 

 our sea-rivers, and on the sea-shore ; and this will be no wonder to 

 any that have travelled Egypt ; where 'tis known the famous river 

 Nilus does not only breed fishes that yet want names, but by the 

 overflowing of that river, and the help of the sun's heat on the fat 

 slime which that river leaves on the banks (when it falls back into its 

 natural channel) such strange fish and beasts are also bred, that no 

 man can give a name to, as Grotius (in his Sophom) and others, have 

 observed. 



But whither am I strayed in this discourse ? I will end it by 

 telling you, that at the mouth of some of these rivers of ours 

 herrings are so plentiful, as namely, near to Yarmouth, in Norfolk, 

 and in the west country, pilchers so very plentiful, as you will wonder 

 to read what our learned Camden relates of them in his Britannia 

 (pp. 178, 1 86). 



Well, scholar, I will stop here, and tell you what by reading and 

 conference I have observed concerning fish-ponds. 



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