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it, they have torn it. Put on another bleak. 

 There ! you have another run. 



ORN. Ay, it is a small fish, not much 

 more than a foot long ; yet he fights well. 



HAL. You have him, and I will land him, 

 I do not think such a fish a bad initiation 

 into this kind of sport. He does not agitate 

 so much as a larger one, and yet gratifies 

 curiosity. There, we have him. A very 

 beautiful fish ; yet he has the leech, or louse, 

 though his belly is quite white. 



ORN. This fish is so like a trout, that, 

 had I caught him when alone, I should 

 hardly have remarked his peculiarities ; and I 

 am not convinced, that it is not a variety of 

 the common trout, altered, in many genera- 

 tions, by the predatory habits of his ancestors. 



HAL. How far the principle of change of 

 character and transmission of such character 

 to the offspring will apply, I shall not attempt 

 to determine, and whether all the varieties of 

 the salmo with teeth in their mouth may not 

 have been produced from one original : yet 

 this fish is now as distinct from the trout, as 

 the char or the umbla is ; and in Europe, it 



