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found upon the trout; from which I infer, 

 that they seldom hide themselves, or become 

 torpid in the mud. The grayling hatched 

 in May or June, I conclude, become the same 

 year, in September or October, nine or ten 

 inches long, and weigh from. Jive ounces to half 

 a pound; and the year after they are from 

 twelve to fifteen inches long, and weigh from 

 three quarters to a pound; and these two 

 sizes, as you have seen, are the fish that most 

 usually rise at the fly. The first size in this 

 river is called shote^ which is a Celtic word, I 

 believe, applied likewise in the west of Eng- 

 land to. small trout. Of their growth after 

 the second year I cannot speak; this must 

 depend much on their food and place of re- 

 sidence. Marsigli says, they do not grow 

 after the third year, and at this age, in 

 Austria, they are sometimes a cubit long; 



posed. Of course this was the time when they were 

 in their worst season, as they were just beginning to 

 recover from the work of generation. At this time 

 they often rose at and refused the fly, but there were as 

 yet no large flies on the water. The leech was a small 

 greenish dark worm, about an inch or an inch and a 

 half long, like a common leech in form and colour. 



