48 BEST'S ART OF ANGLING. 



These fish shift their quarters to spawn, and, 

 like the Salmon, make up towards the heads of 

 rivers to deposit their roes. 



The rivers most famous for trout are the K en- 

 net near Hunger ford in Berkshire ; the S tower, 

 in Kent, which runs through Canterbury, and is 

 said to breed the best trouts in the south-east of 

 England, those in the Wandle, near Cashatton in 

 Surry ; the Ame,rhj, in Sussex ; the Dove, Wye, 

 Lath kin, and Bradford, in Derbyshire; Ribble 

 and Itk, in Lancashire ; and in the Usk and 

 Wye, in Monmouthshire, are accounted excellent 

 trouts ; but to speak impartially, no one can ab- 

 solutely determine in what particular river or 

 brook are the most and best trouts. This, how- 

 ever, is certain, that trouts are better or worse, 

 bigger or less, according to the nature of the 

 soil on which the river runs : pure, clear, trans- 

 parent streams, running on rocks, pebbles, or 

 more especially time-stones or jfiints, are experi- 

 mentally found to breed, and afford the most 

 delicate and best trouts. 



The hook No. 2 or 3. 



THYMALLUS, 



The Gragling, Grayling, or Umher ; thrs fish 

 has three different names given Jt, according to 

 the different parts of England where k is found ; 

 he is by no means a general fish, arid what 

 anglers seldom meet with, except in the rivers 

 Dove and Trent, and some other small streams, 

 particularly in that vhich runs b ; Salisbury. 

 The haunts of the grayling are nearly the same 

 as the trout ; and in fishing for either of them 



