THE RED CHARR. 79 



river Dee (says this author) which runs by C//c.v- 

 ter, springs in Merioiiet/ishire, and it runs towards 

 Chester-, it passes through the said Pemh/e-Mcre, 

 which is a large water, and it is observed, that 

 though the river Dee abounds with salmon^ and 

 PemO/e-Mere with giii/inlady yet there are never 

 any 5rt//7zo?/.s' caught in the Mere, iiovixny gi/ifmiadfi 

 in the river.'' 



UMBRA BTINOR GESN — TffE RED CffARR, OR 

 WELCH TORGOCir. 



The red charr is a fish whose make is longer 

 and more slender than that of a trout, for one 

 of about eight inches long was no more than an 

 inch and a half broad. The back is of a grenish 

 olive, spotted with white. I'he belly, about the 

 breadth of half an inch, is painted with red, in 

 some of a more lively, in others of a paler color, 

 and in some, especially the female, it is quite 

 white. The scales are small, and the lateral lines 

 straight. The mouth is wide, the jaws pretty- 

 equal, except the lower, which is a little shar- 

 per and more protuberant than the upper. The 

 lower part of the fins are of a vermillion dye. 

 The gills are quadruple, and it has teeth both in 

 the jaws and on the tongue; in the upper jaw 

 there is a double row of them. The swimming- 

 bladder is like that of a trout; the liver is not 

 divided into lobes; the gall-bladder is large; the 

 heart triangular; the spleen small and blackish; 

 and the eggs of the spawn large and round. The 

 flesh is more soft and tender than that of a trout, 

 and when boiled can scarcely be allow:?d to be 

 red. It is in the highest esteem where known, 

 and in Wales is accounted the chief diidi at the 

 tables of people of fashion 



