A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



rally keep at the bottom of the water, 

 feeding on fmall fhells and fuch aquatic 

 plants as they meet with there. It has 

 been faid, that though the Dee runs 

 through this pool, thefe fifh are never to 

 be found in the river; nor on the con- 

 trary, are the falinon of the river, though 

 caught in plenty there, ever to be taken 

 in the pool.* This is a fingular circum- 

 fiance; and, though not entirely, is, I 

 believe, in a great meafure true: the 

 Honourable Daines Barrington, -f who 

 enquired accurately into the matter, only 

 obferves to the aflertion, that they never 

 encroach upon each other; that he had 

 feen a falmon caught in the lake upwards 

 of two hundred yards from the bridge; 

 and that he had been authentically in- 

 formed, of feveral of the others being 

 taken even fo low down the river as 



* Ed. Lhvvd in Camden'.s Britannica. 

 * See a paper on Cambrian Filh, in the Philofophical 

 Tra.-faflion? for the year 1767. 



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