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ness of flesh, beats all the Wenern fish. They are principally 

 taken on the long chain lines. These chain lines are in great use 

 here. They are rigged up with 300 to 1000 hooks, about six feet 

 apart, baited with worms or pieces of fish, floated here and there 

 '.vith bits of wood to mark the whereabouts, and sunk with stones 

 at every 200 to 300 yards. I may mention here that all the fishing 

 on the Wenern is wholesale, and hardly any man goes out for the 

 sake of the sport. Even when a few do go out together in a boat, 

 the principal attractions are the company and the "prog," and, as 

 may be supposed, these fishing parties are anything but " the con- 

 templative man's recreation." 



That the tench {Tinea vulgaris, Cuv.) is taken in the bays on the 

 north-east of the Wenern in considerable numbers, and of a good 

 size, I know for a fact. I am told that the common carp {C. 

 Carpio, L.) is also common there, but of this I have no positive 

 proof. 



It is said that before the construction of the canals and sluices at 

 Trolhattan, the eel was unknown in the Wenern ; whether or not 

 such was the case, of course I cannot positively say, but it is certain 

 that in many parts of the lake they are now common enough, and 

 of a large size, and appear to be gradually spreading over the whole 

 of North Wermland. 



We have a species of bream here unknown in the British waters, 

 common enough in many parts of the Wenern, the Cyprinus IPlmla, 

 Linn. Its shape, howev^er, is much more elongated than the com- 

 mon bream ; and, as Mr. Lloyd properly obser\^es, " it much resem- 

 bles in appearance the young of the Coregoni, but is readily distin- 

 guished from them by the absence of the adipose fin." Whether 

 or not there are two fish of this name I cannot say, but, on referring 

 to a small treatise of the fish found in the Lake Malare, near Stock- 

 holm, the author describes the Cyprinus JVimha or ivimlan, and (I 

 quote his own words) says, " But it must not be confounded with 

 the wimma (5. IVimha) which is taken in the Wenern." Now, 

 many naturalists here suppose that we have a second species of 

 vendace peculiar to the Lake Anini, which lake is connected with 



