22 OBSERVATIONS 



'Herefordshire, many Grayling are found. In 

 the Dee, as I said before, they are found, but are 

 not common. In Derbyshire and Staffordshire 

 the Dove, the Wye, the Derwent, the Trent, and 

 the Blithe, afford Grayling ; in Yorkshire, on the 

 North coast, some of the tributary streams of 

 the Ribble, and the Swale, from Richmond to 

 two miles below Catterick, and in the South, 

 the Ure, the Wharf e, the Humber, the Derwent, 

 and the streams that form it, particularly the 

 Rye." 



Again, at p. 203, he says : " Having travelled 

 with the fishing-rod in my hand through most 

 of the Alpine valleys in the South and East 

 of Europe, and some of those in Norway and 

 Sweden, I have always found the Char in the 

 coldest and highest waters ; the Trout in the 

 brooks rising in the highest and coldest moun- 

 tains ; and the Grayling always lower, where the 

 temperature was milder : and if in hot countries, 

 only at the foot of mountains, not far from 

 sources which had the mean temperature of the 

 atmosphere ; as in the Vipacco, near Coritzea, 

 and in the streams which gush forth from the 

 limestone caverns of the Noric Alps. 



'Besides temperature, Grayling require a 

 peculiar character in the disposition of the water 

 of rivers. They do not dwell like Trout in 

 rapid shallow torrents ; nor like Char or Chub in 



