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of her gils,and feeds and isnourifli'd 

 V>y no man knows what; and this 

 may be believed of the For dig Trout^ 

 which (as it is faid of the Stork, that 

 he knowes his feafon, fo he) knows 

 his times (I think almoft his day) 

 of coming into that River out of the 

 Sea,, where he lives (and it is like 

 feedsy nine months of the year, 

 and about three in the River of 

 Fordig. 



And now for fome confirmation 

 of ths; you are to know, that this 

 Trout is thought to eat nothing in 

 the frefh water ; and it may be the 

 better believed, becaufe it is well 

 known, that Swallowes, which are 

 not feen to flye in England for 

 fix months in the year, but about 

 Michaelmas leave us for a hotter cli- 

 mate ; yet fome of them, that have 

 been left behind their fellows, have 

 been found (many thoufand at a Fra ' 



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time) in hollow trees, where they 



have been obferved to live and fleep 



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