208 PRINCIPAL FISHING STATIONS. 



LLYN GEIRRIONYDD, where the Forthlwyd flows 

 into the Conway. There is another smaller lake, 

 connected with it by a nameless stream. 



LLYN BOGYNNYD, three miles from Llanwrst, the 

 source of a small river falling into the Llugwy, from 

 whence the lake is distant about three miles. 



LLYN BOCHLWYD is situated high up in the hollow 

 of a hill. This lake, like its neighbour Ogwen, is 

 well furnished with trout and eels. Being fortunately 

 very stony and rough at the bottom, a net can be 

 drawn only in one part. 



are extremely palatable without any sauce; accustomed to 

 temperance and exercise, the hardy natives are independent 

 of the inventions of epicurism. This species is also found in 

 Siberia, in the Cabel, the Forn, and the rivers which run 

 into them. But the largest and most beautiful chars are 

 found in Winander Mere, in Westmorland, where there are 

 three species, the red, the gilt, and the case char. These kinds 

 are nearly similar in their external appearance ; but the time 

 and manner of their spawning are so different, as to afford 

 room for their specification into three distinct species. The 

 case char spawns about Michaelmas, and chiefly in a river that 

 runs into the lake, called the Bratty. The spawning season of 

 the gill char is from the beginning of January to the end of 

 March ; they never ascend the river, but make choice of a 

 springy part of the lake, where the bottom is smooth and sandy. 

 The manner of taking these fish is commonly with nets, or 

 allure trammels, as they are called, which are furnished with 

 bait to the fish, and left set for several days, till they are 

 known to enter them. 



Linnaeus wonders, and with reason, what those trout that 

 inhabit the mountain lakes can live upon during winter ; as 

 being constantly covered with snow and ice, they offer neither 

 plants, insects, nor other fish. 



