76 BEST^S ART OF ANGLING. 



is peculiar to Pemble-Meer in Cheshire. " The 

 river Dee,, " says this author, which runs by 

 Chester, springs in Merionethshire, and it runs 

 towards Chester; it passes through the said Pem- 

 ble-Meer, which is a large water, and it is ob- 

 served, that though the river Dee abounds with 

 salmon, and Pemble-Meer with guinniad, yet 

 there are never any salmons caught in the Meer, 

 nor any guinniads in the river. 



VMBKA MINOR GESN THE RED CHARR, OR WELCB 

 TORGOCH. 



The red charr is a fish whose make is longer 

 and more slender than that of a trout, for one of 

 about eight inches long was no more than an inch 

 and a half broad. The back is of a greenish 

 olive spotted with white. The belly, about the 

 breadth of half an inch, is painted with red, in 

 some of a more lively, in others of a paler co- 

 lour, and in some, especially the female, it is 

 quite white. The scales are small, and the lateral 

 lines straight. The mouth is wide, the jaws 

 pretty equal, except the lower, which is a little 

 sharper and more protuberant than the upper. 

 The lower part of the fins are of a vermilion dye. 

 The gills are quadruple, and it has teeth both in 

 the jaws and on the tongue ; in the upper jaw 

 there is a double row of them. The swimming 

 bladder is like that of a trout ; the liver is not 

 divided into lobes ; the gall-bladder is large ; 

 the heart triangular; the spleen small and black- 

 ish ; and the eggs of the spawn large and round. 

 The flesh is more soft and tender than that of a 

 trout, and when boiled can scarcely be allowed to 

 be red. It is in the highest esteem where known. 



