274 ALPINE CHAR. 



sometimes found at the mouths of rivers and in the sea. In 

 that country it sheds its roe in August. 



We have already remarked that although Chars are especially 

 inhabitants of lakes, it is not every lake that will suit their 

 nature and habits; but only such as are very deep, usually on 

 elevated ground; or, as a compensation for this last particular, 

 in some latitude towards the north, where the temperature is 

 with a degree of steadiness which verges towards the sensibly 

 cool or cold. In England these conditions are found in what 

 is popularly termed the lake district; which comprises portions 

 of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and part of Lancashire; where 

 Windermere, Brassmere, Buttermere, and Coniston Water, 

 together with Keswick and Cummon Water, are famous for 

 some of these fishes. Dr. Davy informs us that he himself 

 introduced them into Easedale, but with what success we have 

 not heard. 



In Wales the Torgoch is most abundant in Llyn Cwyllian, 

 or Cwellyn, on the west side of Snowdon; but there are lakes 

 in this neighbourhood in which this Char has never been met 

 with. In Llanberris the abundance for which it was famous 

 was once checked, in consequence of the flowing into it of 

 water from a mine; so that it was supposed they were all 

 destroyed; but they still exist there, as we know from having 

 obtained them. 



In Scotland besides Loch Grannock, in Kircudbrightshire, 

 they are also known in Lochs Corr and Killin, in Inverness-shire, 

 and also Loch Inch; and Sir William Jardine found them in 

 Sutherlandshire. There was also a Char in Loch Leven, but 

 whether so at present seems uncertain. 



In Ireland all the species except the Alpine appear to be 

 more widely distributed than in other parts of the United 

 Kingdom. Mr. Thompson has specified the situations of these 

 fish at considerable length in his natural history of his native 

 country, and from him with other help I derive the following 

 particulars, joined to those which have been given in our 

 account of the individual species. The lakes or pieces of water 

 that have been enumerated are Lough Melvyn, Esk, the 

 Commeloughs and Stilloges in the mountains of Cummeragh; 

 Lough Neagh, Eagish; Inchigcelagh, in the county of Cork; 

 Kindun, Gartnan, Shassuck, Kindrum, Keel, in Donegal; Dan, 



