120 BRITISH FISH AND FISHERIES. 



In some of the rivers of Scotland and Eng- 

 land the bull-trout, or whitling, (Salmo eriox,) 

 is very common ; it is as large or nearly so as 

 the salmon, but its flesh, which when in season 

 is of a pale orange colour, is not held in much 

 estimation. Very few are ever sent to the 

 London market. The local names of Norway 

 trout, round-tail, sea trout, Wark worth trout, 

 and coquet trout, are referrible to this fish. 



The clear streams, the swift gravelly rivers, 

 and the pure fresh water lakes of the British 

 islands, all abound more or less with that deli- 

 cate fish, the common trout, (Salmo fario,) re- 

 specting which anglers, from Izaak Walton 

 downwards, have written so much, each giving 

 preference to the fish of different rivers accord- 

 ing to his fancy. Walton praises the " swift, 

 shallow, clear, pleasant brooks " of Hampshire, 

 with their " store of trouts." Cotton exalts the 

 Dove, the Wye, the Derwent, and the Lathkin 

 of Derbyshire. But perhaps finer trout are 

 nowhere to be found than those in the Thames, 

 about the weirs of Hampton Court and Chertsey, 

 about Pangbourne, above Reading, and iu the 

 deep pools above Oxford. We have ourselves 

 seen Thames trout between eleven and twelve 

 pounds' weight ; but some of fourteen and fifteen 

 pounds' weight are occasionally taken, not, 



