io6 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART i. 



sudant balsamum oleo gelato, albicantique per simile^ odoris 

 vero longe suavissimi" 



It is supremely sweet to any fish, and yet asafcetida may do 

 the like. 



But in these things I have no great faith, yet grant it 

 probable, and have had from some chemical men, namely, from 

 Sir George Hastings and others, an affirmation of them to be 

 very advantageous ; but no more of these, especially not in this 

 place. 



I might here, before I take my leave of the salmon, tell you 

 that there is more than one sort of them ; as, namely, a tecon, 

 and another called in some places a samlet, or by some a 

 skegger ; but these and others, which I forbear to name, may 

 be fish of another kind, and differ as we know a herring and a 

 pilchard do, which, I think, are as different as the rivers in 

 which they breed, and must by me be left to the disquisitions 

 of men of more leisure, and of greater abilities, than I profess 

 myself to have. 



And lastly, I am to borrow so much of your promised patience 

 as to tell you that the trout or salmon, being in season, have, at 

 their first taking out of the water, which continues during life, 

 their bodies adorned, the one with such red spots, and the other 

 with such black or blackish spots, as give them such an addi- 

 tion of natural beauty, as I think was never given to any woman 

 by the artificial paint or patches in which they so much pride 

 themselves in this age. And so I shall leave them both, and 

 proceed to some observations on pike. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



OBSERVATIONS OF THE LUCE, OR PIKE ; DIRECTIONS HOW 

 TO FISH FOR HIM. 



PiSC. The mighty Luce, or Pike, is taken to be the tyrant, 

 as the salmon is the king of the fresh waters. It is not to be 

 doubted but that they are bred, some by generation, and some 



