60 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART I. 



but (about Michaelmas) leave us for a hotter climate, 



yet some of them that have been left 



> .vir Fran, behind their fellows, have been found, 



Bacon, Exper. 



"'*.' many thousands at a time, in hollow trees, 



or clay caves, where they have been 

 observed to live, and sleep out the whole winter, with- 

 out meat. And so Albertus ' observes, that there is one 

 kind of frog that hath her mouth natu- 

 rally shut up about the end of August, and 

 that she lives so all the winter : and 

 though it be strapge 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 gotten 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 chameleon are said to live, by the sun and the air. 4 



There is also in Northumberland a Trout called a 

 Bull-trout, of a much greater length and bigness than 

 any in these 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, 



(1) Albert** Magnus, a German Dominican, and a very learned man. Ur- 

 ban IV. compiled him to accept of the bishopric of UatUbon. lie wrote a 

 treatise on the Secrets of Nature, aud twenty other volumes in folio; and 

 died at Cologne, ltt. 



(2) Edward Topsel was the author of a History of Four-footed Beasts and 

 Serpents, collected oat of the works of Gesner, and other authors, in folio, 

 Load. I&5H. In this history he describes the several kinds of frogs; and in 

 page 721 thereof, cites from Aloertus the fact here related. See an account 

 of him in Walton's Life. 



(.1) See Chap. VIII. 



(4) That the Chameleon live* by the air alone is a vulgar error, it being 

 well known that its food is flies and other insect*. See Sir Tho. Brown's Enquiry 

 into fulgar and Common Errors, Book III. Chap. 21. About the year 

 1780, a living Chameleon was to be seen in the garden of the Company of 

 Apothecaries at Chelsea. And, at the same time, (1784,) an exanimated one, 

 in a state of excellent preservation, is open to public view among the quadru- 

 peds in Sir Ashlon Lever's inestimable collection of natural curiosities. 



