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affords a trout, that exceeds all others. And~jusl_sp__dpes 

 Sussex boast of several fish ; as namely, a Shelsy__oxkl, a 

 Chichester lobster, an Arundel mullet, and an Amerly trout. 



And now for some confirmation of the Fordidge trout: you 

 are to know that this trout is thought to eat nothing in the fresh 

 water, and it may be better believed, because it is vveU knpwn 

 that^swallows 7 gjuLJaats, and wagtailj^jvhjch are called jjalf- 

 ye^r_biols^aJidjiiit_Sri to fly in England for six months injhe 

 year, but about Michaelmas leave us for a better climate than 

 this; yet some of them that have been left behind their fellows, 

 have been found many thousands at a time, in hollow trees, or 

 clay caves; where they have been observed to live and sleep 

 out the whole winter without meat; and so Albertus observes, 

 that there is one kind of frog that hath her mouth naturally 

 shut up about the end of August, and that she lives so all the 

 winter: and though it be strange tj some, yet it is known to 

 too many among us to be doubted. 



And so much for these Fordidge trouts, which never afford an 

 angler sport, but either live their time of being in the fresh 

 water, by their meat formerly got in the sea (not unlike the 

 swallow or frog), or by the virtue of the fresh water only; or, as 

 the birds of Paradise and the chameleon are said to live, by the 

 sun and the air. 



There is also in Northumberland a trout called a bull-trout, of 

 a much greater length and bigness than any in the southern 

 parts. And there are, in many rivers that relate to the sea, 

 salmon-trouts, as much different from others, both in shape and 

 in their spots, as we see sheep in some countries differ one from 

 another in their shape and bigness, and in the fineness of their 

 wool. And, certainly, as some pastures breed larger sheep, so 

 do some rivers, by reason of the ground over which they run, 

 breed larger trouts. 



Now the next thing that I will commend to your consideration 

 is, that the trout is of a more sudden growth than other fish. 

 Concerning which, you are also to take notice, that he lives not 

 so long as the perch, and divers other fishes do, as Sir Francis 

 Bacon hath observed in his History of Life and Death. 



