The Complete Angler. 



Eeles abound fo much, that many 

 of the poorer fort of people, that in- 

 habit near to it, take fuch Eeles out 

 of this Mere, with fieves or fheets ? 

 and make a kind of Eele-cake of 

 them, and eat it like as bread. And 

 Gefner quotes venerable Bede to fay,, 

 that in England there is an Hand cal- 

 led Ely, by reafon of the innumera- 

 ble number of Eeles that breed in it_ 

 But that Eeles may be bred as fome 

 worms and fome kind of Bees and 

 Wafps are, either of dew, or out of 

 the corruption of the earth, feems to 

 be made probable by the Barnacles 

 and young Go/lings bred by the Suns 

 heat and the rotten planks of an old 

 Ship, and hatched of trees, both 

 which are related for truths by Du~ 

 bartas, and our learned Cambden* 

 and laborious Gerrard in his Her* 

 ball. 



It is faid by Randelitius^&t thofe 

 JSe/es that are bred in Rivers, that 

 relate to, orbeneer to the Sea, ne- 

 ver 



