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But in these I have no great faith; yet grant it probable; and have
had
from some chymical men, namely, from Sir George Hastings and
others, an affirmation of them to be very advantageous. But no more
of
these; especially not in this place.
I might here, before I take my leave of the Salmon, tell you,
that there is
more than one sort of them, as namely, a Tecon, and another called
in
some places a Samlet, or by some a Skegger; but these, and others
which I forbear to name, may be fish of another kind, and differ
as we
know a Herring and a Pilchard do, which, I think, are as different
as the
rivers in which they breed, and must, by me, be left to the disquisitions
of men of more leisure, and of greater abilities than I profess
myself to
have.
And lastly, I am to borrow so much of your promised patience,
as to tell
you, that the trout, or Salmon, being in season, have, at their
first taking
out of the water, which continues during life, their bodies adorned,
the
one with such red spots, and the other with such black or blackish
spots, as give them such an addition of natural beauty as, I think,
was
never given to any woman by the artificial paint or patches in
which
they so much pride themselves in this age. And so I shall leave
them
both; and proceed to some observations of the Pike.
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