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relate to the sea, salmon-trouts, as much different from 



The Salmon Trout. 



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 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, that he lives not so long as the perch, 1 and divers 



in deep holes under the root of a tree on the side next the stream, and will 

 rise at an artificial fly ; but the best bait is a well-scoured brandling, bred 

 in Tanners' bark. They bite all the summer in the morning, and in the 

 evening from fine till dusk. BROWN. 



1 The Trout may be called a long-lived fish. Mr. Oliver mentions a 

 Trout which had been for twenty-eight years an inhabitant of the well at 

 Dumbarton Castle; and the "Westmoreland Advertiser" of August, 1826, 

 contained a paragraph stating that a Trout had lived fifty-three years in a 

 well in the orchard of Mr. William Mossop, of Board Hall, near Broughton- 

 in-Furness.- ED. 



