THE TROUT. 12$ 



the fresh water ; and it may be better believed, because it is 

 well known, that swallows and bats and wagtails, which are 

 called half-year birds, and not seen to fly in England for six 

 months in the year, but about Michaelmas leave us for a 

 better climate than this ; yet some of them that have been 

 left behind their fellows, have been found many thousands 

 at a time, in hollow trees, or clay caves ; where they have 

 been observed to live and sleep out the whole winter without 

 meat ; and so Albertus b observes, that there is one kind of 

 frog that hath her mouth naturally shut up about the end 

 of August, and that she lives so all the winter ; and though 

 it be strange to some, yet it is known to too many among 

 us to be doubted. 



And so much for these Fordidge trouts, which never afford 

 an angler sport, but either live their time of being in the 

 fresh water, by their meat formerly got in the sea (not unlike 

 the swallow or frog), or by the virtue of the fresh water only; 

 or, as the birds of Paradise and the chamelion are said to 

 live, by the sun and the air. 



There is also in Northumberland a trout called a bull 

 trout, of a much greater length and bigness than any in the 

 southern parts. And there are, in many rivers that relate 

 to the sea, salmon trouts, as much different from others, both 

 in shape and in their spots, as we see sheep in some countries 

 differ one from another in their shape and bigness, and in 

 the fineness of their wool. And certainly, as some pastures 

 breed larger sheep, so do some rivers, by reason of the ground 

 over which they run, breed larger trouts. 



Now the next thing that I will commend to your con- 

 sideration is, that the trout is of a more sudden growth than 

 other fish. Concerning which, you are also to take notice, 



