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are called Gregs); and a blackilh 

 .*/<?, whofe head is more flat and 

 bigger then ordinary Eeles ; and al- 

 fb an Eele whofe fins are redifh, and 

 but feldome taken in this Nation 

 (and yet taken fometimes) : Thefe 

 feveral kinds ofEe/es, are (fay fome) 

 diverfly bred; as namely, out of 

 the corruption of the earth, and by 

 dew, and other wayes ^as I have 

 faid to you :) and yet it is affirmedby 

 fome, that for a certain, the Silver- 

 Eele breeds by generation, but not 

 by Spawning as other fifli do, but 

 that her Brood come alive from her 

 no bigger nor longer then a pin, 

 and I have had too many tefti- 

 monies of this to doubt the truth 

 of it. 



And this Eele of which I have faid 

 fo much to you, may be caught with 

 divers kinds of baits ; as namely, 

 with powdered Bief, with a Lob or 

 Garden-worm, with a Minnow, or 

 gut (&Hen y Chlcken., or with almoft 



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