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there are also in divers rivers, especially that relate to, or be 

 near to the sea, as Winchester, or the Thames about Windsor, 

 a little trout called samlet, or skegger trout (in both which 

 places I have caught twenty or forty at a standing), that will 

 bite as fast and as freely as minnows : these be by some taken 

 to be young salmon ; but in those waters they never grow to be 

 bigger than a herring. 



Thereis alsoin Kent, near to Canterbury, a trout called 

 there a FordidgeTroutpa trout that bears the name of the 

 to wtTwherejris_ usuajJ[V_Caugrit that is accounted trie rarestl)f / 

 fisTTflnaiiy^thera^neaiJheJ)igness of a salmon, but knownjby 

 their different colour; and in their best season they cut very 

 white; and none of these have been known to be caught with 

 an angle,unless it were one that was caught by Sir George 

 Hastings, an excellent angler, and now with God ; and he hath 

 told me, he thought that trout bit not for hunger but wanton- 

 ness^and it is rather to Be believed, because both he~, then^and 

 many others before him, have been curious to search into their 

 bellies, what the food was by which they lived; and have found 

 out nothing by which they might satisfy their curiosity. 

 "Concerning which you are to take notice, that it is reported 

 by good authors, that grasshoppers, and some fish, have no 

 mouths, but are nourished and take breath by the porousness 

 of their gills, man knows not how : and this may be believed, if 

 we consider that when the raven hath hatched her eggs, she 

 takes no further care, but leaves her young ones to the care of 

 the God of nature, who is said, in the Psalms, "to feed the 

 young ravens that call upon him." And they be kept alive, and 

 fed by dew, or worms that breed in their nests, or some other 

 ways that we mortals know not ; and this may be believed of 

 the Fordidge trout, which, as it is said of the Stork (Jerem. 

 viii. 7), thati^he knows his season," so he knows his times, I 

 th i nk almostjiis_day of corning into that river out of 1 the sea, 

 wRenThe lives, and, it is like, feeds nine months^f the year, 

 anxHrrsts three in the river of Fordidge. And you arejojnote 

 that those townsmen are very punctual in observing the time of 

 beginning to fish for them; and boast much that their river 



