Class IV. G W I N I A D. 



thofe of Ireland, and of Cumberland; and in Wales, 

 in that of Llyntegid, near Bala, in Merioneth/hire, 



It is the fame with the Ferra of the lake of Ge- 

 neva, the Schelly*, of Hulfe-water\ the Pollen of 

 Lough Neagh, and the Vangis and Juvdngis of 

 £<?<:£ Mabon. The Sf0/a& have a tradition that it 

 was firft introduced there by the beauteous queen, 

 their unhappy Mary Stuart-, and as in her time the 

 Scotch court was much frenchified, it feems likely 

 that the name was derived from the French, vendoifs, 

 a dace ; to which a flight obferver might be tempt- 

 ed to compare it from the whitenefs of its fcales. 

 The Britijh name Gwiniad, or whitings was beftow- 

 ed on it for the fame reafon. - 



It is a gregarious fifh, and approaches the mores 

 in vaft fnoals in fpring and in fummer, which 

 prove in many places a blefied relief to the poor of 

 inland countriesj in the fame degree as the an- 

 nual return of the herring is to thofe who inhabit 

 the coafts. The Rev. Mr. Farrijh, of Carlijle, 

 wrote me word, that he was afTured by a Hulfe- 

 water fifherman, that laft fummer he took between 

 kvcn and eight thoufand at one draught. I muft 

 not pafs by that gentleman without acknowledg- 

 ing my obligations to him for an account of the 

 Charrs and the Schelly -, he being one of the valuable 

 embellifhers of this work, for whom 1 am indebted 

 to the friendftiip of his late worthy prelate. 



* The inhabitants of Cumberland give this name alfo to 

 the chub, from its being a fcaly fiih. 



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