196 The Complete Angler. 



CHAP. XL 



Pifc. r~W~*\ttE Barbell, is fo cal- 

 led^fayes Gefner] from 

 - or by reafon of his 

 beard, or wattles at his mouth, his 

 mouth being under his nofe or chaps, 

 and he is one of the leather mouthed 

 fifh that has his teeth in his throat,he 

 loves to live in very fwift ftreams, 

 and where it is gravelly, and in the 

 gravel will root or dig with his nofe 

 like a Hog, and there neft himfelf, 

 taking fo fail hold of any weeds or 

 mofs that grows on ftones, or on 

 piles about Weirs, or Floud-gates, or 

 Bridges, that the water is not able,be 

 it never fo fwift, to force him from 

 the place which he feems to contend 

 for : this is his conftant cuftome in 

 Summer, when both he, ar.d mofl 

 living creatures joy andiport them- 



felves 



