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they make us anglers no sport ; therefore I will let them 

 alone, as the Jews do, to whom they are forbidden by their 

 law. 



And, scholar, there is also a Flounder, a sea-fish, which 

 will wander very far into fresh rivers, and there lose himself 

 and dwell ; and thrive to a hand's breadth, and almost twice 

 so long : a fish without scales, and most excellent meat ; 

 and a fish that affords much sport to the angler, with any 

 small worm, but especially a little bluish worm gotten out 

 of marsh ground or meadows, which should be well scoured. 

 But this, though it be most excellent meat, yet it wants 

 scales, and is, as I told you, therefore an abomination to 

 the Jews. 



But, scholar, there is a fish that they in Lancashire boast 

 very much of, called a Char ; taken there (and I think 

 there only) in a mere called Winander Mere ; a mere, says 

 Camden, that is the largest in this nation, being ten miles 

 in length, and (some say) as smooth in the bottom as if it 

 were paved with polished marble. This fish never exceeds 

 fifteen or sixteen inches in length, and is spotted like a 

 trout ; and has scarce a bone, but on the back. But this, 

 though I do not know whether it make the angler sport, 

 yet I would have you take notice of it, because it is a rarity, 

 and of so high esteem with persons of great note. 



Nor would I have you ignorant of a rare fish called a 

 Guiniad, of which I shall tell you what Camden and others 

 speak. The river Dee (which runs by Chester) springs in 

 Merionethshire ; and, as it runs toward Chester, it runs 

 through Pemble Mere [Bala Lake], which is a large water ; 

 and it is observed, that though the river Dee abounds with 

 salmon, and .Pomble Mere with the guiniad, yet there is 



