GRAYLING. 



fresh. The salmon is so well known to everybody, 

 that to describe its form and appearance would be a 

 work of supererogation. It is not less pleasing to the 

 eye than to the palate. 



" High flavour'd salmon, through the world renown'd." 



Large rapid rivers, with pebbly, gravelly, and muddy 

 bottoms, are the especial delight of the salmon, except 

 when feeding, and then it prefers the rough and upper 

 part of gentle streams, and the tails of large ones. It 

 used to be taken in the Thames, but we believe it is 

 now extinct there. 



SECT. II. THE GRAYLING, OR UMBRA. 



Salmo Thymallus. 



THIS gracefully-shaped fish, which is of the salmon 

 tribe, is in many of its habits and wants similar to the 

 trout. It seldom exceeds eighteen inches in length, 

 and weighs from eight ounces to a pound. Very 

 large ones, however, are occasionally taken in the Trent 

 and the Avon. Some of four or five pounds weight are 

 spoken of ; but that is an extraordinary size. The 

 body of the grayling is long and round, a good deal re- 

 sembling that of the trout; but it has a number of dusky 

 longitudinal bones along its body, from which it is 

 supposed to take its name, grayling graylines. 



