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without feeding upon anything (as 

 I have told you feme Swallows have 

 been obferved to do in hollow trees 

 for thofe fix cold months); and this 

 the Eele and Swallow do, as not be- 

 ing able to endure winter weather ; 

 for Gefner quotes Albertus to fay, 

 that in the yeer 1 125 fthat years 

 winter being more cold then ufual) 

 Eeles did by natures inftinft get out 

 of the water into a flack of hay in a 

 Meadow upon dry ground, and 

 there bedded themfelves, but yet at 

 laft died there. I fhall fay no more 

 of the Eele, but that, as it is obfer- 

 ved,he is impatient of cold, fo it has 

 been obferved, that in warm wea- 

 ther an Eele has been known to live 

 five days out of the water. And laft- 

 ly, let me tell you,th3 1 fome curious 

 fearchers into the natures of fifh, 

 obferve that there be feveral forts or 

 kinds of Eeles , as the Jiher-Eele, 

 and green orgreenij7jEe/(whh which 

 the River of Thames abounds, and 



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