S8 The Complete Angler. 



BxxTopfel out the whole winter without meat; 

 r ^ y * and fo Albertus obferves that there is 

 one kind of Frog that hath her 

 mouth naturally fhut up about the 

 end ofAuguft, and that fhe lives fo 

 all the Winter, and though it be 

 ftrange to fome, yet it is known to 

 too many amongft us to bee doub- 

 ted. 



And fo much for thefe Fordidg 

 Trouts, which never afford an An- 

 gler fport, but either live their time 

 of being in the frefh water by 

 their meat formerly gotten in the 

 Sea,(not unlike the Swallow or Frog) 

 or by the vertue of the frefh water 

 only, as the Came lion is faid to live 

 by the air. 



There is alfo in Northumberland, 

 a Trout, called a Bull Trout, of a 

 much greater length and bigneffe 

 then any in thefe Sou them parts; and 

 there is in many Rivers that relate to 

 the Sea, Salmon Trout s as much dif- 

 ferent oi.e from another, both in 



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