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CHAP. VI. 



Salmon is ever bred in 

 the frefh Rivers ( and in 

 moft Rivers about the 

 month of Augufi] and never grows 

 big but in the Sea; and there to an 

 incredible bignefs in a very /hort 

 time ; to which place they covet to 

 fwim,by the inftint of nature, about 

 a fet time: but if they be ftopp'd by 

 Mills, Floud-gates or Weirs, or be 

 by accident loft in the frefh water, 

 when the others go (which isufual- 

 ly by flocks or fholes) then they 

 thrive not. 



And the old Sa/mon,both the Mel- 

 ter and Spaivner, ftrive allb to get 

 into the Sea before Winter; but be- 

 ing ftopt that courfe, or loft ; gro v 

 lick in frefh waters, and by degrees 

 unieaionable, and kipper, that is, 

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