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rivers, but always in thofe parts of the lake which 

 are fpringy, where the bottom is fmooth and fandy, 

 and the water warmed. The fimermen judge of 

 this warmth, by obferving that the water feldom 

 freezes in the places where they fpawn, except 

 in intenfe frofts, and then the ice is thinner than in 

 other parts of the lake. They are taken in great- 

 eft plenty from the end of September to the end of 

 November : at other times they are hardly to be 

 met with. This fpecies is much more efteemed 

 for the table than the other, and is very delicate 

 when potted. 



We mud obferve, that this account of the fpawn- 

 ing feafon of the Wefimorland charrs, agrees very 

 nearly with that of thofe of Wales, the lad appear- 

 ing about a month later, keep moving from fide to 

 fide of the pool, and then retire into the deep 

 water, where they are fometimes but rarely taken. 

 This remarkable circumftanee of the different 

 feafon of fpawning in fifh, apparently the fame (for 

 the red charr of IVinander, is certainly not the 

 Carpio Lacus Benaci) puzzles us greatly, and 

 makes us wifh that the curious, who border on 

 that lake, would pay farther attention to the na- 

 tural hiftory of thefe fifh, and favor us with fome 

 further lights on the fubject.. 



We {hall now defcribe the varieties bv the names 

 afcribed to them in the north. 



The length of the red charr to the divifion in its Rei> Char.?., 

 tail, was twelve inches •, its biggeft circumference 

 X 3 almofi: 



