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rally known, to make any enumeration of 

 particular localities* necessary. It is an inhabi- 

 tant of most of the rivers and lakes of Great 

 Britain; and so closely identified with the 

 pursuits and gratifications of sportsmen, that 

 those landed proprietors who possess streams 

 of water favourable to the production and 

 growth of trout, preserve them with great care 

 and at considerable expense. The trout, 

 though a voracious feeder, and thus affording 

 excellent diversion to the experienced angler, 



* " The favourite haunts in which the trout delights, and 

 where the angler is most likely to meet with diversion, are, 

 the j unction of two streams the tails of currents below 

 bridges near old weirs or pieces of rock where the roots 

 of trees are exposed by the bank having fallen in under 

 hollow banks ; and an excellent mode of enticing a good 

 fish is, to throw the fly against the opposite bank, so that 

 it may drop gently from thence to the water ; also, where- 

 ever there is a fall of water, or a whirlpool ; as when on the 

 watch for food, they take post at the foot or sides of agita- 

 ted waters, lying in wait for such flies, &c. as the motion 

 of the element may drive before it." Bainbridge. 



"To enumerate the rivers, streams, and brooks of this 

 country, which the common trout inhabits, would be an 

 endless and useless task ; he may be said to frequent al- 

 most all of them, and will even sometimes be discovered 

 in a mere ditch (in spawning time), having scarcely depth 

 of water enough to cover the back. He delights in rapid 

 clear-running waters, with a rocky or gravelly bottom. 

 His favourite haunts are the tail of a stream, the end of a 

 little rapid, or swifter running portion of the current, the 

 junction of little rapids formed by water passing round an 

 obstruction in the midst of the general current, and where 

 a chain of bubbles or little floating objects indicate the 

 course of the principal current j which course is chiefly 



