THE SALMON, CHAR, AND VENDACE. 83 



hunted down by the pike. As a bait to these fish, it 

 is irresistible, and greatly preferred to a small trout or 

 par. The flavour of the vendace is highly delicate, 

 resembling that* of the spirlings caught in the Forth. 

 Its food is a very minute species of shell-fish, or water 

 insect, peculiar to the castle loch, as has been ascer- 

 tained by Dr Knox and other naturalists ; it refuses 

 all the lures of the angler, and is only to be taken with 

 the net. 



Confounded, till of late years, with the vendace, is 

 the guiniad, or pollock, of Loch Lomond, a fish com- 

 mon to Wales and some of the Irish lakes. The gui- 

 niad, salmo lavaretus, is both much larger and deeper 

 formed, attaining sometimes to the weight of two pounds 

 and upwards. It is found in Ullswater, and known 

 there by the name of the schelley an appellation si- 

 milar to that which is given in Dumfriesshire to the 

 chub and roach. 



SONG. 



Let ither anglers chuse their ain, 



An' ither waters tak' the lead, 

 O' Hielan streams we covet nane, 



But gie to us the bonnie Tweed ! 

 An' gie to us the cheerfu' burn, 



That steals into its valley fair 

 The streamlets that, at ilka turn, 



Sae saftly meet an' mingle there. 



The lanesome Tala an' the Lyne, 



An' Manor, wi' its mountain rills, 

 An' Etterick, whose waters twine 



Wi' Yarrow, frae the forest hills ; 

 An' Gala, too, an' Teviot bright, 



And mony a stream of playfu' speed, 

 Their kindred valleys a' unite, 



Amang the braes V bonnie Tweed. 



