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CHAPTER X. 



ON THE NATURE, HABITS, AND ORGANISATION 

 OF THE GRAYLING. 



SALMO THYMALLUS. 



THE chapter we are about to write on this 

 gracefully-shaped fish, will be chiefly compiled 

 from the same source to which we are indebted 

 for the previous one. The grayling, though 

 abundant in some streams, is yet a very local 

 fish. Similar, in many respects, to the trout 

 in its habits and wants; there are numbers 



