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Its i^ill-rovers wore silvery, luarketl with a dark spot ; belly 

 ami sides, uj) to tlu- lateral line of the same, silvery colour ; 

 hack and sides, down to the lateral line, dusky, inelininj; to 

 ^recu; sides above the hitcral line marked uith dusky spots; 

 ailong the lateral line, and both a little above and a little l)elow 

 it, several dull obseure red spots. TIm' dors.il fin has twelve 

 rays, marki-d with several dusky spots; the peetoral fin has 

 twelve rays of a dusky olivi' colour; the ventral tin ei'j;ht rays 

 of a silvery whiti*; and the anal tin ten rays of the sanu* colour. 

 When the scales were carefully taken oil with a knife, the 

 obscure red spots became of a fine \ermilit)n, and wi-re nine- 

 teen in number ; and ten obscure oval bars of a dusky bluish 

 colour appeared, which crossed the lateral line. In a youufij 

 fry which has not ncciuircd the scales, these bars are very 

 ilistinet. 



Till' aecompanyin;; cut and description are both borrowed 

 from Varrel's " British Fishes ;" the latter as (pioted from 

 l>r. lleysham's catalogue. 



To render these facts yet more certain, in the autumn of 

 lH;i5, Thomas I'pton, l'>s(j.. of lui^mirc Hall, near Kendal, 

 began to enlarge a natural lake on his property, and in the 

 spring of l^.'it), some Pinks from the Lune, a Salmon ri\(r in 

 that vicinity, were put into it. 



This lake, wliich is called Lilynu're, has no connnunication 

 with any other water, by which the fish once introduced can 

 get out, or any fry from other waters get in. The Pinks, when 

 put in, were certainly not above two or three ounces each in 

 weight. Sixteen months nftenvards, a friend of' Mi-. I |)ton's 

 being on a visit to bun, caught «ith a red |)almer-fly two 



