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always in its colour a very brilliant fish, but in 

 different countries there are many varieties in the 

 tint. I do not remember ever to have seen more 

 beautiful fish than those of Aussee, which, when in 

 perfect season, have the lower fins and the belly of 

 the brightest vermilion, with a white line on the 

 outside of the pectoral, ventral, anal, and lower part 

 of the caudal fin, and with vermilion spots, surrounded 

 by the bright olive shade of the sides and back ; the 

 dorsal fin in the charr has 1 1 spines, the pectoral 14, 

 the ventral 9, the anal 10, and the caudal 20. I 

 have fished for them in many lakes, without success, 

 both in England and Scotland, and also amongst the 

 Alps ; and I am told the only sure way of taking 

 them is by sinking a line with a bullet, and a hook 

 having a live minnow attached to it, in the deep 

 water which they usually haunt; and in this way, 

 likewise, I have no doubt the umbla, or ombre chevalier, 

 might be taken.* 1 



POIET. I have never happened to see this fish. 



HAL. It is very like a charr in form, but is 

 without spots, and has a white and silvery belly. 

 On the table, its flesh cuts white or cream-colour, 



[* In the lakes of Westmoreland and Cumberland, in which the 

 charr is found, the manner of taking it varies ; in Windermere trolling 

 with a minnow is successfully used ; in Hawes Water the artificial fly ; 

 in Crummock Water it refuses all baits, and is never caught except in 

 the net. J. D.] 



