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propensity to work down stream as trout have to 

 work up. Many of these latter fish get as high as 

 they can towards the spring head of rivers ; and I 

 had recently an instance of this in the beautiful 

 grounds of Bromley Hill, in Kent. Those who 

 have seen these charming grounds, which have been 

 laid out with equal skill and fine taste, must re- 

 member the clear and pretty trout stream which 

 runs through them. This stream is formed from 

 the overflowings of some springs in the pleasure- 

 garden, one of which bubbles up in a large artificial 

 basin. In this basin, cold as the water is, a trout 

 may always be seen. If one is removed, another 

 quickly takes it place, and one only occupies this 

 transparent spring head. Its food appears to be 

 frogs which occasionally get into the basin. Winter 

 and summer the trout keeps possession of its circular 

 domain, and shews no disposition to quit it. This 

 fact would prove that trout delight in the coldest 

 water they can meet with, and that they ascend 

 rivers for the purpose of meeting with it at their 

 source. Grayling, on the contrary, appear to de- 

 scend rivers, as they are not so numerous in the 

 higher parts of the Test, and they are disappearing 

 from stations in that river where many have been 

 turned out for the sake of stocking it with those 

 fish. The flavour of the grayling has not, I think, 

 been sufficiently appreciated. It is one of the best 

 fish I am acquainted with. This fish feeds much 



