TROUT. 5Q5 



Trauts (probably of the same species) are also taken in Hulse- 

 water, a lake in Cumberland, of a much superior size to those of 

 Lough Neagh. These are supposed to be the same with the trout 

 of the lake of Geneva, a fish many have eaten who think but a 

 very indifferent one. 



In the river Eynion, not far from Machyntleth, in Merioneth- 

 shire, and in one of the Snowdon lakes, are found a variety of 

 trout, which are naturally deformed, having a strange crookedness 

 near the tail, resembling that of the perch before described. We 

 dwell the less on these monstrous productions, as the Honourable 

 Daines Barrington, has already given an account of them in an 

 ingenious dissertation on some of the Cambrian fish, published in 

 the Philosophical Transactions of the year 1767. 



The stomachs of the common trouts are uncommonly thick and 

 muscular. They feed on the shell. fish of lakes and rivers, as well 

 as on small fish. They likewise take into their stomachs gravel, 

 or small stones, to assist in comminuting the testaceous parts of 

 their food. The trouts of certain lakes in Ireland, such as those 

 of the province of Galway, and some others, are remarkable for 

 the great thickness of their stomachs ; which, from some slight 

 resemblance to the organs of digestion in birds, have been called 

 gizzards: the Irish name the species that have them Gillaroo 

 trouts. These stomachs are sometimes served up to table, under 

 the former appellation. It does not appear to me, that the extra- 

 ordinary strength of stomach, in the Irish fish, should give any 

 suspicion that it is a distinct species : the nature of the waters 

 might increase the thickness ; or the superior quantity of shell-fish ? 

 which may more frequently call for the use of its comminuting 

 powers than those of our trout, might occasion this difference, 

 I had opportunity of comparing the stomach of a great Gillaroo 

 trout, with a large one from the Uxbridge river. The last, if I 

 recollect, was smaller, and out of season ; and its stomach, (not. 

 withstanding it was very thick) was much inferior in strength to 

 that of the former: but, on the whole, there was not the least 

 specific difference between the two subjects. 



Trouts are most voracious fish, and afford excellent diversion to 

 the angler ; the passion for the sport of angling is so great in the 

 neighbourhood of London, that the liberty of fishing, in some of 



