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CHAPTER IX. 



ON THE NATURE, HABITS, AND ORGANISATION 

 OF THE COMMON TROUT. 



SALMO FARIO. 



IN giving an account of all that relates to 

 this beautiful fish the handsomest, taking 

 every thing into consideration, that swims our 

 streams we shall do little more than copy 

 and condense the copious and correct chapter 

 written by Mr. Yarrell, vice-president of the 

 Zoological Society, on the subject. The com- 

 mon trout is too widely diffused, and too gene- 



