1 84 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [PART I. 



and dwell, and thrive to a hand's breadth, and almost twice so 

 long, a fish without scales, and most excellent meat, and a 

 fish that affords much sport to the Angler, with any small 

 worm, but especially a little bluish worm, gotten out of marsh- 

 ground or meadows, which should be well scoured. But this, 

 though it be most excellent meat, yet it wants scales, and is, as 

 I told you, therefore an abomination to the Jews. 



But, Scholar, there is a fish that they in Lancashire boast 

 very much of, called a CHAR, taken there, and I think there 

 only, in a mere called Winander-Mere ; a mere, says Camden, 

 that is the largest in this nation, being ten miles in length, and, 

 some say, as smooth in the bottom as if it were paved with 

 polished marble. This fish never exceeds fifteen or sixteen 

 inches in length, and 't is spotted like a Trout, and has scarce 

 a bone but on the back. But this, though I do not know 

 whether it make the Angler sport, yet I would have you take 

 notice of it, because it is a rarity, and of so high esteem with 

 persons of great note. 



Nor would I have you ignorant of a rare fish called a Gui- 

 NIAD, of which I shall tell you what Camden and others speak. 

 The river Dee, which runs by Chester, springs in Merioneth- 

 shire ; and, as it runs toward Chester, it runs through Pemble- 

 Mere, which is a large water : and it is observed that, though 

 the river Dee abounds with Salmon, and Pemble-Mere with 

 the Guiniad, yet there is never any Salmon caught in the mere, 

 nor a Guiniad in the river. And now my next observation 

 shall be of the Barbel. 



