122 CHAERDUBB. 



AMICUS. Our boatman has cleverly brought 

 us up this narrow arm of the lake ; and now 

 you say we must land, to see the charr-dubb. 



PISCATOK. Here we are at it. Observe it 

 well; how shallow it is, now the water is 

 low, not more than one or two feet deep, and 

 of equable depth from bank to bank, and about 

 the average width of thirty feet, with a bottom 

 throughout well adapted for spawning, com- 

 posed of sand, gravel, and stones. Were it 

 not for the slight fall where it joins the lake, 

 denoted by the ripple, it might be a question 

 whether it is not a continuation of the narrow 

 branch of the lake rather than an expansion 

 of the tributary rivulet, the Lissa, Lissa- 

 beck in the language of the country. 



AMICUS. I am glad to have seen the dubb. 

 From the term, I had formed a different idea 

 of it ; I had fancied it a deep pool, and as such 

 ill fitted for a breeding place. 



PISCATOR. I experienced the same difficulty 

 till I saw it and found how, from its situation 

 and other circumstances, it is well adapted for 

 the breeding place of a fish like the charr, that 

 commonly spawns in the lake itself. 



AMICUS. Our boatman tells me that in 



