3°6 C H A R R. Class IV. 



ftreams, except into fuch whofe bottom is fimilar 

 to the neighboring lake. 



It is found in vaft abundance in the cold lakes 

 on the fummits of the Lapland Alps, and is almoft 

 the only fifh that is met with in any plenty in 

 thofe regions ; where it would be wonderful how 

 they fubfifted, had not Providence fupplied thenr 

 with innumerable larva of the Gnat kind*: thefe 

 are food to the Mm, who in their turn are a fup- 

 port to the migratory Laplanders in their fummer 

 voyages to the diftant lakes. 



In fuch excurfions thofe vacant people find a 

 luxurious and ready repaft in thefe fim, which 

 they drefs and eat without the addition f of fauces; 

 for exercife and temperance render ufelefs the in- 

 ventions of epicurifm. 



* A pupil of Linnaeus remarks in the fourth volume of the 

 Aman. Acad. p. 156, that the fame infers which are fuch a 

 pell to the rein deer, afford fuftenance to the fifh of the valt 

 lakes and rivers of Lapland. But at the fame time that we 

 wonder at Ltnn<eus's inattention to the food of the birds and 

 nih of that country, which abound even to a noxious degree, 

 we muft, in juftice to that Gentleman, acknowledge an over- 

 fight of our own in the fecond volume of the Britijh Zoology >, 

 p. 522, edition the fecond, where we give the Lapland waters 

 only one fpecies of water plant ; for on a more careful review 

 of that elaborate performance, the Flora Lappomca, we dis- 

 cover three other fpecies, viz. Scirfus, No. 18, Alopecurus, 

 No. 38, Ranunculus, No. 234; but thofe fo thinly fcattered over 

 the Lapland lakes, as ftill to vindicate our affertion, as to the 

 fcarcenefs of plants in the waters of alpine countries. 



f Arted. Sp. fife, 52. 



There 



