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ver return to the frefh waters (as the 

 Salmon does alwaies defire to do) 

 when they have once tafted the fait 

 water ; and I do the more ealily be- 

 lieve this, beeciufe I am certain that 

 powdered Bief is a moil excellent 

 bait to catch an Eele : and S r . Fran- 

 cis Bacon will allow the Eeles life to 

 be but ten years ; yet he in his Hi- 

 ftory of Life and Death, mentions 

 a Lamprey, belonging to the Roman 

 Emperor, to be made tame, and fo 

 kept for almoft three fcore yeers ; 

 and that fuch ufeful andpleafant ob- 

 fervations were made of this Lam- 

 prey, that Craffus the Oratour (who 

 kept her) lamented her d?ath. 



It is graiited by all, or moft men, 

 that Eeles ,for about fix months (that 

 is to fay, the i^x cold months of the 

 yeer) ftir not up and down, neither 

 in the Rivers nor the Pools in which 

 they are, but get into the foft earth 

 or mud, and there many of them 

 together bed themfelves, and live 



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