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with their boats without dragging them on shore. There are 

 two kinds of char here as well as in Ulswater, viz., the silver 

 and the golden char, which some have distinguished by the 

 male and female. That, however, I deny, from my own 

 observations, too tedious to mention here. They are two 

 different species, commonly here known by the white-bellyd 

 and the red-bellyd char, the white are much more valuable ; 

 in this lake both kinds are larger than in Ulswater ; the 

 golden or red-bellyd char in Ulswater are never used for 

 potting, but are sold at the rate of two pence or three pence 

 a pound with the coarser trouts, which here are distinguished 

 in value, not by their size, but by their tongue. 



" In the latter end of summer, amazing quantities of winged 

 pissmires (or ants) alight upon the surface of this lake, upon 

 which animal the char feed with wonderful greediness, and 

 to this food some attribute the colour of their flesh in the 

 autumnal season. Pike is taken with nets, and sometimes 

 with the bait, but not very often, and affords little entertain- 

 ment to the angler ; perch in like manner, and eels, but more 

 frequently with the bait. 



" The fishery belongs to the lord of the manor, viz., the 

 King, and is divided into what is called (here) three cables ; 

 the rector having the tenth for tythe ; but this is settled by 

 a prescription of so much a boat. 



" The ferry, or navigation cross, then, is freehold, paying a 

 merk lord's rent, and is the property of Mr. Braithwaite, of 

 Harrowslack." 



