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Saloon. with (ions Jo fish
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Fixates. The Salmon is accounted the king of fresh.
Warr Gsh, End is ever bred in rivers relating to the me, yet
so high, or far from it, a. admit. of no tincture of salt or
tirsehishnese. He in said to breed or earl his spoor, in most
rives., in the month of Aliguql 6-; some ray, that then they
dig • hole or gave in a safe lame In the gravel, and there
place their ,gt(s or spawn, after the metier ha. done his us.
local office, sad then hide it most cunningly, and rover it
over with gravel and stoma, rad then leave it to their Cies.
tor's protection, who, by • gentle heat which infuses into
ileac cold demist, makes it brood sad beget life. in the spawn,
sod to herume Samlrts early iu the spring m•xt following.
Tb. Salmoos having spent their appointed time, sad done
this amoral duty in the fresh waters they then haste to the
sea before winter, both the metier and spawner; bat if
Ike, be stop, by Swot gates or wrier, w lost in the fresh
water*, them those so left behind by degrees grow 'lrk sad
lean, and ussessonstile, sod kipper; that is to say, have
henry gristles grow nut of their I iwer chaps not us like a
Nantes hear, which holders their feeding, and in time mica
bah al left behind pine sway sold die. 'tie observed, that
be may live Hors one year Inns the Ow, Mot he tires grows
insipid and Maulers, and lose" boll) hie blood sod atrragth,
and pines sad dies the tierood your. And 'tis noted, MO
Masse litife Unions called ht.kger.' Which abound i• many
Merril retains& to the sea, are bred by such *irk Salmons that
bight mil go to the sea, sad that though they abound, yet
/bey never thrive to any rumalderable bigness.
Hut if the old Salmon gets to the ten, then that gristle
which alto,. him to be kipper, wears away, or is east aff,
as the eagle is said to cast his bill, sod he recovers her
strength, mid comes next summer to the same river, if it
he ponsihle, to enjoy the former plemores that there pos.
seat him (2); for. as owe lies wittily observed, he her, like
some pennies of bemire and riches which have both the*
winter and sammer-hosoes, she fresh livers fur summer, mi 4
the ash water for sinter, to spend his life in ; which is tek
as Sir Francs Baran Milk observed in his Ilislary of Lift
end Duolk, above lea years. And it is to be uhserved, that
though the Salamis doer Scow big is the sea, yet be grows not
fat but Is fifth riven; and it is eihservesi, that the farther
they get from the see, they be both the fatter and better.
Next, I shall tell you, that though they make very hard
shift to got out of the fresh rivers into the sea, yet they will
mAte harder shift to get out of the milt into the fresh rivers
so spawn, or porno she plvarares that they hare formerly
found la then; to which rod they will force themaelve•
through flood gates, or over weirs, or hedges, or leaps its the
water, eves to • height beyond COMMON billet. Gruber
.peaks tif such places as are known to be above eight feet
high above water. And oar Camden mentions, in his Bri-
tannia, the like wonder to be in Pembrokeshire, where the
river liity falls into the sea; sad that the fall is so down.
right, and an high, that the people snood and wonder at the
ateength and sleight by which they are the Salmois use to get.
out of the sea into the raid fiver; and the mightier sad
height of She place is so notable, that it is known, tar, by
Sheathing of the Salotow-leap ; mowers:Mg which, take this
also oat of Michael Drayton (21, my honest old freed, as ha
lells It you in his f'n/yolloion(4):
As wises the Salmon 4ek. a timber stream to hod;
(illaish Miller from the sea comes, yr. aily, by his kid,)
As be Nonni. season grows, sad slim. the wsery tract
'where Tley,falling down, rash.. an high cataract,
. Fore'd by the rising rocks that there her course oppose,
• A. that' within by hounds they sememit her to enclose;
Mere, %lira the latiouiii.g dom at the foot arrive,
And Sod. that I's aortaetb he does but vainly striae;
His tail takes in his mouth, and heading like a how
Thai's to full conipms draws, aloft himself sloth 'Mow,
Then spriEging as his height, as doh a little wand
That beaded mid to sod, mad started from moo's hand,
Far oir liseif slush tent; 'odors the Salmon vault:
And if, at first, he fail, hie ,mono sit mincraault
He iiimssitly teems, nod from his nimble ring
Still yeriting, never leaves emit himso If he Stag

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OprOllllllll[ 1111 C 1111.
Titip MieMtl Dra)tuo tells you, of this leap or summer•
souls of the Salmon. . .

And mixt, I shall tell you, slat it is observed by Geiser
snit mans, that dirt, is no better Salmon than in England;
864 that, though some of our siorth.ni comities Wive se fat,
and ea large aip the river Thames, yr' nose are of so excelleot
a init. VV.
And as I have told you, that Sir Francis Baron obeevirea,
the age of • Saloom' exceeds Dot ten 'wort; ro let me Next
tell yur, that his growth is itry sudden ; it is said, that
after be `as gut into the in I, be Incomes, from a s.ntlei nut
so big is a Gudgeon, to de a Salmon, in as short • time as a
grotto, heroin's to be a goose. Mach of this has beets
served by tying a ribbiliol. or Some hoOOrli lap, or thread, is
the tail of some poling S•t:/nOna, %loch ha,. bees token is
weirs ar they have svimetie.l towards die salt water; aid
thou by taking • part of thew again, Milli the known mark,
at the same place, at their return from the sea, uhich is
earally about at mouths after; and the like capes iffiest
Lath bees tried upon young swallows, who have, after six
months absence, bee. observed to rcllllll to the mime chim-
ney, these to make their nests rind habitations foe the sum-
mer full Owing; which has inclined many to think that every
Salmon usually returns to the same river in which it was
bred, as young pipers.. taken out of the ease dovveate have
Mao been illumined tule.

And sou are yet to observe further, that the he /Wawa is
usually bigger than the Spawner, and itsat he is muse kipper,
wad leas able in endure a winter in the fresh water lima the

(I) Their usual time of %pawning is about the latter end of
Arterial, or the hegiotnine of September; but it is said that
tho-et an ibis Severn span in May.
(I) 'The migration of the Salmon ■sal divers other sorts
10 fish is analogons to that of birdie: and Ns. Lay couflrms
Waltort's assertion, by saying, that •• Salaams grill yearly •s-
-teed up a river four or five hundred miles, only to cut their
spurs, and secure it in banks of sand till the young be
'matched and excluded; amid then return to sea again."—
Wiedons of Cod manifested in The Works of Ike Ovation,
p. 130.
It may not be improper here to take notice, that is this,
sod several other parts of the hunk, the faces related by the
outlier do most remarkably colocide nub later discoveries of
the most diligeot and **germ's natoralials.

(a) An excellent port, burn in Warwickshire, 1563.
Among his works, which are very numerous, is the Po
briwn, a choeugraphicsl description of Ilse rivers. monuiains,
Cowls, castles, Am in ibis island. Though this poem bas
great merit, it is rendered much more valuable by the
learaed notes of Mr. Beldew. The author died la 1631, Dud
lies boded among the posts in Westminster Abbey.
(4) Dr. Warburton, in the Preface to his Amesperrre,
apeakiwg of this poem, says it was written by Dee !Proem.,
a anode of expreasion very colonies with great men, n ben
they mean 1.1 tousles the sneinury of Others over to oblivion
wad contempt. Bishop Brunei, speaking of the uegoeimions
p.m/loss to the Peace of Utrecht, says, in like meatier, that
" else Prior was employed to finish the Treaty." But bosh
t►ose gentlemen, 111 their witty perversion of an immeesst
snourioyllable, were bat initiators of she Bwidish Amb mom
Om, tars complained so Whillocke, that a treaty hail been
newt to be translated by owe Mrs. Mittole, a Wind man.—
Whitlockes idea. 433.

(() Tire ((Atoning interestiog article of istetligenee sp•
"tared in one of the London Jointsls, April le, 17811:.
The largest Saloon ever fought was yesterday Worths to
Loodos. This estrsoidiumry bah measured upward. of fuor
fres, from the point of tbe nose Io the entressity of Ilse tail
end three feet round the thickest part of the body: its weight
was seventy pounds waists a few °emcee. A SeAsioneer In
die Miseries eel se up at one Wino, per pelted, and tire
Mink was sold almost insenedtatelg."

(6) The Salmon delight+ in large rapid rivers, especially
such as have pebbly, gravelly, avid sometimes weedy bottoms.
(7) Baits for Saloum are:—Lob-worms, for the growled
smaller worms and bobs, cad bait, sad indeed lowa of the
baits takes by the trout at the top of the water. And as to
Me*, ti member to make them of the most gaudy colours,
sad very large. There is • Ay called the horse•leech Ay,
which he is very fund of; they are of various colours, have
great head., large bodies, very long tails, •ad two (ar d some
have three) pain of wisp, placed bekiad each other: in
imitating this Ay, behind each pair of wisp whip the body
shout with gold ur silver twist, or both, nod do the same by
the hand. Fe.h with it al length, as fur Trout and Grayling.
you dib, du it with two or three butterlie.of differ. ”t
colours, or with some of the most glaring small Ales you
can find.