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you that there is more than one sort of them ; as, namely, 

 a tecon, and another called in some places a samlet, or by 

 some a skegger ; but these and others, which I forbear to 

 name, may be fish of another kind, and differ as we know a 

 herring and a pilchard do, which, I think, are as different as 

 the rivers in which they breed, and must by me be left to 

 the disquisitions of men of more leisure, and of greater 

 abilities, than I profess myself to have. 



And lastly I am to borrow so much of your promised 

 patience as to tell you, that the trout or salmon, being in 

 season, have at their first taking out of the water, which 

 continues during life, their bodies adorned, the one with 

 such red spots, and the other with such black or blackish 

 spots, as give them such an addition of natural beauty, as I 

 think was never given to any woman by the artificial paint 

 or patches in which they so much pride themselves in this 

 age. And so I shall leave them both, and proceed to some 

 observations on the pike. 



