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tints, and in the black rivers running over beds 

 of shale, in the moorlands, as the upper part of 

 the Wye, near Buxton, in Derbyshire, we have 

 seen the small trout of an almost inky hue ; 

 while in the same river, along the Bakewell 

 road, on its way to join the Derwent, where the 

 water is beautifully clear, the trout are of a pale 

 golden colom- and beautifully spotted. They 

 are, however, seldom of very large size. 



The trout Avould appear to be a long-lived 

 fish ; at Dumbarton Castle a trout died, in 

 1809, which bad been kept, as asserted, in the 

 well for twenty-eight years ; and the Westmore- 

 land Advertiser, in August, 1826, contained, 

 as Mr. Yarrell states, a paragraph respecting 

 a trout which had lived for fifty-three years 

 in a well in the orchard of ]VIr. W. Mossop, of 

 Board-hall, near Broughton-in-Furness. The 

 flesh of the trout is very delicious, and when in 

 full season of a pure salmon-pink colour. 



In Lough Neagh, a variety called the gillaroo 

 trout exists ; we have seen specimens of it ; 

 it differs in having the lining cuticle of the 

 stomach thickened, or rather indm-ated, and in 

 the number of fin-rays, thus : — ' 



Gillaroo trout, d 12. p 14. v 9. A 11. c 19. 

 Common trout, d 14. r 14, and as above. 



Trout from various lakes, with the upper 



