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viewed in a particular position in reference to the light : and 

 if the scales are removed, the marks are much more obvious. 

 They are also very distinct in the Common Trout and in the 

 Charr for a considerable time. 



There are striking examples in other animals of this 

 similarity in the markings, or family likeness, in the young 

 of the various species of the same genus, however different 

 may be the colours of the parent animals. The young of 

 the lion and the puma are as much marked for a time as the 

 young of the tiger and leopard, or, indeed, of any of the 

 other cats, whether striped or spotted ; and the young of all 

 deer are said, and many are known, to be spotted, though 

 it is also known that the greater number of the adult animals 

 are perfectly plain. 



I am now enabled, through the kindness of Thomas 

 Lister Parker, Esq., to offer some remarks on the growth 

 of the young Salmon in fresh water, and in order to prevent 

 any misconception of the terms employed, I shall speak of 

 the young Salmon of the first year as a Pink ; in its se- 

 cond year, till it goes to sea, as a Smolt ; in the autumn of 

 the second year as Salmon Peal, or Grilse, and afterwards 

 as adult Salmon. 



In the autumn of the year 1835, Thomas Upton, Esq. of 

 Ingmire Hall, situated between Sedbergh and Kendal, be- 

 gan to enlarge a lake on his property, and in the spring of 

 1836, some Pinks from the Lune, a Salmon river which runs 

 through a valley not far from the lake, were put into it. 

 This lake, called Lillymere, has no communication with the 

 sea, nor any outlet by which fish from other waters can get 

 in, or by which those put in can get out. The Pinks when 

 put into Lillymere did not certainly exceed three inches and a 

 half in length. Sixteen months afterwards, that is, in 

 the month of August 1837, Thomas L. Parker, Esq. then 

 visiting his friend, fished Lillymere, desirous of ascertaining 



