90 ERRONEOUS DESIGNATION. 



its tributaries, I was decidedly in error ; for to say nothing of 

 the all but impossibility of that fish getting up the Falls of 

 Trollhattan, I have since ascertained that the fish in the lake 

 of the genus Salmo are no other than huge trout. 



I was partly led into the mistake by the Swedish naturalists 

 telling us, that the S. Solar constantly inhabits some of the 

 larger of the Scandinavian lakes ; partly also from every one 

 calling it the Lax, or salmon ; and from not having suffi- 

 ciently examined the specimens that came in my way 

 none of which indeed were anything like full-grown, and 

 of course had not the same marked characters as the adult. 

 The law, moreover, classed the fish in question as Lax, or 

 salmon, in contradistinction to the Lax-Oring or trout, 

 people being permitted to kill the latter at all seasons, 

 whereas the former, at a particular time of the year, is pro- 

 tected by law. 



