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this it may be inferred, that the guiniad does not take 

 a bait in the river, or the salmon in the lake ; and 

 probably this may account for the vulgar error of the 

 river Dee passing through the lake, without any ad 

 mixture of the two waters. But it is evident that 

 the water of the river is not inimical to them, but 

 the contrary, as they go up the river to spawn. The 

 difference of opinion, as to their flavour, may be ac 

 counted for by one person having anticipated tasting 

 a fish of superlative delicacy, and finding that, like 

 most anticipations of pleasure in this world, it was 

 not carried out by the reality. Whereas, another 

 person tastes them as being a rarity, having fallen in 

 his way, without thinking previously about them ; 

 and to him they are palatable and pleasant. 



BRECKNOCKSHIRE. About the middle of the county, 

 I think, near Brecknock, there is a large piece of 

 water, which was formerly, and may be now, so 

 overstocked, that people about there say, there are 

 two-thirds water, and one-third fish ; but of what 

 species, I am ignorant ; they may be worthless Cru 

 cian carp, or the useless hybrid that swarm in the 

 Serpentine. 



CARMARTHENSHIRE. In the Gwili, down to Aber- 

 gwilly, and thence to its junction with the Toway, 

 there is, I am informed, plenty of trout ; un4 in the 

 latter river there are fish of the trout genus, called 



