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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 Pilcher 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 pa- 

 tience, 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 addition 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 the Pike. 



