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to have a bony griftle, to grew (not 

 unlike a Hauks beak) on one of his 

 chaps, which hinders him from 

 feeding , and then he pines and 

 dies. 



But if he gets to Sea, then that gri- 

 ftle wears away, or is caft off (as the 

 Eag/e isfaid tocaft his bill) and he 

 recovers his ftrength, and comes 

 next Summer to the fame River, (if 

 it be poffible) to enjoy the former 

 pleafures that there pofleft him; for 

 (as one has wittily oblerved) he has 

 (like fome perfons of Honour and 

 Riches, which have both their win- 

 ter and Summer houfes) the frefh 

 Rivers for Summer, and the fait 

 water for winter to Ipend his life in; 

 in his Hi- which is net (as Sir Francis Bacon 

 ftory of hath obferv^d) above ten years: And 



Life and . . r ' , / , , 



Death, it is to be obferved,that though they 

 grow big in the Sea, yet they grow 

 not fat but in frefh Rivers ; and it 

 isobferved, that the farther they gee 

 from the Sea, the better they be. 



And 



