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which arises to pitch such a work, be it ever so 

 good, or even valuable, into the fire, out of the 

 window, anywhere, rather than to have to wade 

 through it and take it all in. 



Of salmon, bull-trout, sea-trout, etc., I intend 

 to treat later on. Such fish are migratory, and 

 require a portion of the work to themselves. 

 There remains but one other variety of fresh- 

 water trout for me to refer to, viz., the great 

 gray trout, or the Salmo ferox, a fish which 

 is to be found in very few of our lakes, viz., 

 Lochs Awe, Luggan, Shin, Loyal, and Assynt, 

 in Scotland, Lough Neagh in Ireland, and 

 U 11s water in Cumberland. They are said to 

 be found in all these lakes, and there may, 

 for all I know to the contrary, be others which 

 they also inhabit ; my own belief, however, 

 is that they are extremely rare anywhere. If I 

 remember rightly, I think that both Windermere 

 and Derwentwater lakes are also believed to 

 possess them. 



These fish run to an enormous size at times. 

 One captured in Ullswater is declared to have 

 scaled between fifty and sixty pounds. They are 

 very voracious, and play havoc with the smaller 

 fish, and will, like the pike, seize a bait and permit 

 themselves to be dragged by it, and if they miss 

 it, again rush at it. Although, when compara- 

 tively small fish of a pound or two in weight, they 



