26 THE COMMON TROUT. 



depend on the seasons ; having ourselves taken trout, 

 both of the red and white kind, in the same month, in 

 two contiguous streams of Cardiganshire (the Rhei- 

 dol and the Istwith), one of which invariably pro- 

 duces the red, the other the white trout. Lakes 

 also, though situated not two hundred yards apart, 

 shall equally differ in the flavour and colour of their 

 fish. * Walton says rightly, that the trout comes in 

 and goes out with the buck, and is in high per- 

 fection in May. 



As regards the longevity of trout, we copy the 

 following paragraph from the Westmorland Ad- 

 vertiser: " Fifty three years ago, Mr. W. Hossop of 

 Bond Hall, near Broughton in Furness, when a boy, 

 placed a small fellbeck trout in a well in the orchard 

 belonging to his family, where it remained ever since, 

 until last week, when it departed this life, not 

 through any sickness or infirmity attendant on old 

 age, but for want of its natural element, water ; the 

 severe drought drying up the spring that supplied 

 the well, a circumstance unprecedented for the last 

 sixty years : his lips and gills were perfectly white, 

 his head was formerly black and of a large size. He 



* In every country the nature of the water has a considerable 

 influence on the quality as well as the quantity of the fish 

 which it produces. The river in Augonnois, which takes its 

 rise among the rocks about a league and a half from Rouelle 

 in France, whose waters are very rapid, and never either 

 freeze in winter, or become affected by the most violent sum- 

 mer heats, swarms with a prodigious quantity of trouts cele- 

 brated for their delicious flavour. 



