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it freely : The Trout (for which I 

 love to angle above any fifh) may 

 be juftly laid (as the ancient Poets 

 fay of Wine, and we Englifh fay of 

 Venfon) to be a generous fifh, be- 

 caule he has his feafons, a fifh that 

 comes in, and goes out with the 

 Stag or Buck: and you are to ob- 

 ferve, that as there be fome barren 

 Does, that are good in Summer; fo 

 there be fome barren < Troufs,th^t are 

 good in Winter ; but there are not 

 many that are fo, for ufually they 

 be in their perfection in the month 

 of May, and decline with the Buck: 

 Now you are to take notice, that in 

 feveral Countries, as in Germany mA 

 in other parts compar'd to ours, they 

 differ much in their bignefs, fhape, 

 and other wayes, andfo doTrouts; 

 'tiswel known that in the Lake Le- 

 mon, the Lake of Geneva, there are 

 Trout s taken, of three Cubits long, 

 as is affirmed by Gejher, a Writer of 

 good credit : and Mercator fayes, 



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