THE FOURTH DAY. 

 CHAPTER VI. 



OBSERVATIONS OF THE UMBER OR GRAYLING, AND DIRECTIONS HOW TO 

 PISH FOR HIM. 



PISCATOR. The umber and grayling are thought, by 

 some, to differ as the herring and pilchard do. But though 

 they may do so in other nations, I think those in England 

 differ nothing but in their names. 1 Aldrovandus says, they 

 be of a trout kind : and Gesner says, that in his country, 

 which is Switzerland, he is accounted the choicest of all fish. 

 And in Italy, he is, in the month of May, so highly valued, 

 that he is sold at a much higher rate than any other fish. 

 The French, which call the chub " un villain," call the 

 umber of the lake Leman, " un umble chevalier ; " and they 



1 The larger grayling is called an umber ; as the full-grown jack is 

 called a pike. BROWNE. 



