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two ftones together very deep under the water,thofe that ftand on a bank neer to that place may hear the noife without any diminution of it by the water.He alfo offers the like experiment concerning the letting an Anchor fall by a very long Cable or rope on a Rock, or the fand within the Sea: and this being fo wel obferved and demonstrated, as it is by that learned man, has made me to believe that Eeles unbed themselves, and ftir at the noife of the Thunder, and not only as fome think, by the motion or the ftirring of the earth, which is occafioned by that Thunder.

And this reafon of Sir Francis Bacons has made me crave pardon of Exper. 792 one that I laught at, for affirming that he knew Carps come to a certain place in a Pond to be fed at the ringing of a Bel; and it shall be a rule for me to make as little noise as I can when I am a fishing, until Sir Francis Bacon be confuted, which I

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fhal give any man leave to do,and fo leave off this Philofophical discourse for a discourse of fishing.

Of which my next shall be to tell you, it is certain, that certain fields neer Lemfter, a Town in HerefordShire,are obferved, that they make the Sheep that graze upon them more fat then the next, and also to bear finer Wool; that is to fay, that that year in which they feed in fuch a particular pasture, they shall yeeld finer wool then the yeer before they came to feed in it, and courser again if they shall return to their former pasture, and again return to a finer wool being fed in the fine wool ground. Which I tell you,that you may the better believe that I am certain, IfI catch aTrout in one Meadow, he shall be white and faint,and very like to be lowfie; and as certainly if I catch a Trout in the next Meadow, hefhal be strong,and red, and lufty, and much better meat:

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Truft me (Scholer) I have caught many a Trout in a particular Meadow, that the very shape and inamelled colour of him, has joyed me to look upon him, and I have with Solomon concluded, Every thing is beautifull in his feafon.

It is now time to tell you next, (according to promise) some observations of the Salmon; But first, I wil tel you there isa fish, called by fome an Umber, and by fome a Greyling, a choice fish,efteemed by many to be equally good with the Trout: it is a fish that is usually about eighteen inches long, he lives in fuch streams as the Trout does; and is indeed taken with the fame baitasa Trout is, for he will bite both at the Minnow, the Worm, and the Fly, both Natural and Artificial: of this fish there be many in Trent, and in the River that runs by Salisbury, and in some other les K 2

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fer Brooks; but he is not fo general a fish as the Trout, nor to me either fo good to eat, or fo pleasant to fifh for as the Trout is; of which two fishes I will now take my leave, and come to my promised Obfervations of the Salmon, and a little advice for the catching him.

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HE Salmon is ever bred in the fresh Rivers (and in most Rivers about the month of August) and never grows big but in the Sea; and there to an incredible bignefs in a very fhort time; to which place they covet to fwim,by the instinct of nature, about a fet time: but if they be stopp'd by Mills, Floud-gates or Weirs, or be by accident loft in the fresh water, when the others go (which is ufually by flocks or sholes) then they thrive not.

And the old Salmon,both the Melter and Spawner, ftrive alfo to get into the Sea before Winter; but being stopt that course, or loft; gro v fick in fresh waters, and by degrees unfeasonable, and kipper, that is,

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