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thefe that we new injoy, afford an 

 Angler. 



And you are to know, that in 

 Hamp-Jhire, (which I think exceeds 

 all England for pleafant Brooks, and 

 ftore of Trout s] they ufe to catch 

 Trout s in the night by the light of a 

 Torch or ftraw, which when they 

 have difcovered, they ftrike with a 

 Trout fpear ; this kind of way they 

 catch many,but I would not believe 

 it till I was an eye-witnefs of it, nor 

 like it now I have feen it. 



Fiat. But Matter, do not Trouts 

 fee us in the night? 



Pife. Yes,and hear,and fmel too, 

 both then and in the day time, for 

 Gefner obferves,the Otter fmels a fifh 

 forty furlong off him in the water; 

 and that it may be true, is affirmed 

 by Sir Francis Bacon (in the eighth 

 Century of his Natural Hiftory) 

 who there proves, that waters may 

 be the Medium of founds, by de- 

 nionftrating it thus^Ti&tf if you knock 



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