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throat, yet he has so tender a mouth that he is oftener lost after 

 an Angler has hooked him than any other fish. Though there 

 be many of these fishes in the delicate river Dove, and in 

 Trent, and some other smaller rivers, as that which runs by 

 Salisbury, yet he is not so general a fish as the Trout, nor to 

 me so good to eat or to angle for. And so I shall take my 

 leave of him, and now come to some observations of the 

 Salmon, and how to catch him. 



