42 BESTS ART OF ANGLING. 



clear, sandj, parts of rivers, not far from the 

 mouths thereof. It is entirely a northern fish, 

 being found both at Greenland and Kamschatka, 

 being never so far south as the Mediterranean. 



The Salmon-trout migrates like the salmon u\x 

 several of our rivers, spawns and returns to the 

 sea. The flesh, when boiled is red, and tastes like 

 the salmon. 



The White-trout, appears much of the same 

 nature, migrates out of the sea, into the river 

 Esk in Cumberland, from Jul3r to September. 



The Samlet is considered by Mr. Pennant as a 

 distinct species, and not as the fry oFthe salmon, 

 as some have supposed : it seldom exceeds six or 

 seven inches in length. 



They commonly spawn in Octoher, and th e 

 young become samlets the following year, 

 and in a few months a large salmon. The 

 milter and spawner having performed their 

 office, betake themselves to the sea, and we are 

 told that when they have been obstructed in 

 their passage, they have grown so impatient, 

 that clapping their tails to their mouths, with a 

 sudden spring, they have leaped clear over weirs, 

 and other obstacles that stood in their way ; and 

 some by leaping short, have by that means been 

 taken.* If they happen to meet with such im- 

 pediments that they cannot get to sea, they be- 

 c'ome sick, lean, and pine away, and die in two 

 years. The principal occasion of their dying is 

 tiiis ; the salmon being a fish by nature tender, 

 and very chill, cannot in the winter season en- 



* Salmon will sometimes ascend up a river four or fire hun- 

 i]»ed miles, only to cast their spawn, |and secure it in banks of 

 •»iiad till the young be hatched and excluded, and then return 



TO tac sea agtiiu. 



Ray. 



