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ferred ; by the largeness of their backs you may 

 know when they are in season, which may serve 

 as a rule for all other fishes. All winter long 

 they are sick, lean, and unwholesome, and fre- 

 quently lousy. As the spring advances, desert- 

 ing the still deep waters, they repair to the gra- 

 velly ground, against which they continue to 

 rub, till they have got rid of their lice, which are 

 a kind of worm, with large heads ; from that 

 time they delight to be in sharp streams, and 

 such as are very swift ; where they wait for 

 minnows, m<iy-jiies, &c. The latter part of May 

 they are in the highest perfection. 



The colours of the trout, and its spots, vary 

 greatly in the different waters, and in different 

 seasons ; yet each may be reduced to one spe- 

 cies. In Llyndivi, a lake in South Wales, are 

 trouts called coch-y-dail, marked with red and 

 black spots, as big as sixpences ; others unspot- 

 ted, and of a reddish hue, that sometimes weigh 

 near ten pounds, but are bad tasted. 



In Lough-Neagh, in Ireland, are trouts called 

 there buddaghs, which sometimes weigh thirty 

 pounds. 



Trouts (probably of the same species) are also 

 taken in Ulles-water, a lake in Cumberland, of a 

 much superior size to these of Lough-Neagh ; 

 these are supposed to be the same with the trout 

 of the lake of Geneva. He is usually caught with 

 a worm, minnow, orjty, either natural or artificial ; 

 the different baits for him are the earth-worm, 

 dung-zvorm,'<ind the maggot, or gentle, but the best 

 are the lob -worm, and brandling. His haunts are in 

 purling brooks^ running very swift over chalk 

 stones, gravel, See. he is oftener taken in the side 

 of the stream, than in it, though the large ones 

 are often caught in the deepest part of it. 



