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this water; so that charr may find food even in 

 winter; and cold, or the repose to which it leads, 

 seems favourable to the development or conservation 

 of fat. Most of the polar animals (the whale, morse, 

 seal, and white bear, for instance) are loaded with 

 this substance; and the salmon of the Arctic Ocean 

 are remarkable for their quantity of curd : those that 

 run up the rivers in Russia from the White Sea are 

 said to be fatter and better than those caught in the 

 streams which run into the Baltic. 



ORN. — I agree with Physicus in his praise of the 

 charr : we are indebted to you for an excellent 

 entertainment. 



HAL. — At Lintz, on the Danube, I could have 

 given you a fish dinner of a different description, 

 which you might have liked as a variety. The four 

 kinds of perch, the spiegelkarpfen, and the silurus 

 glanis) all good fish, and which I am sorry we have 

 not in England, where I doubt not they might be 

 easily naturalised, and they would form an admirable 

 addition to the table in inland counties. Since 

 England has become Protestant, the cultivation of 

 fresh-water fish has been much neglected. The 

 burbot, or lotte, which already exists in some of the 

 streams tributary to the Trent, and which is a most 

 admirable fish, might be diffused without much 

 difficulty ; and nothing could be more easy than to 



