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half-year birds, and ° not seen to fly in England for six months 

 in a year, but about Michaelmas leave us for a hotter climate, 

 yet some of them that have been left behind their fellows, have 

 been found, many thousands at a time, in hollow trees,' or clay 

 caves, where they have been observed to live, and sleep out the 

 whole winter, without meat.* And so Albertus t observes. That 

 there is one kind of frog \ that hath her mouth naturally shut up 

 about the end of August, and that she lives so all the winter : 

 and though it be strange 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 cameleon are said to live, by the sun and the 

 air. II 



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, as we see sheep in some countries differ one from another 

 in their shape and bigness, and in the fineness of the 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 consideration 

 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 Pearch, and divers other fishes do, as Sir Francis 

 Bacon hath observed in his History of Life and Death. 



And next you are to take notice, that ' he is not like the 



VARIATIONS. 



6 that swallows, which are not seen to fly, &c. — id, ^d, ajld ^th edit. 



7 hollow trees, where they, &c. — 2d, ^d, and ^tk edit. 

 B that after he is come, &c. — id, ^d, and ^i/i edit. 



* View Sir Francis Bacon, Exper. Sgg. 



t Albertus Magnus, a German Dominican, and a verv learned man. Urban IV. 

 compelled him to accept of the bishopric of Ratisbon. 'He wrote a treatise ou the 

 Secrets of Nature, and twenty other volumes in folio ; and died at Cologne, 1280.— H. 



t See Topsel on Frogs. Edward Topsel^za the author of a History of fonr-footed 

 Beasts ajid Serpents, collected out of the works of Gesner, and other authors, in folio, 

 Lond. 1658. In this history he describes the several kinds of frogs ; and in page 7ZI 

 thereof cites from Albertus the fact here related. — H. g See Chap. VIII. 



II That the Cameleon lives by the air alone is a vulgar error, it being well known that 

 its food is flies and other insects.— H. 



