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Should this Lapland " asp" prove to be a dis- 

 tinct species of Coregonus, I believe it is as yet 

 undescribed by any Swedish naturalist, unless it 

 is the Cor eg onus Nilssonii, Yal., which "Widegren 

 says is met with in the Lap waters. I never identi- 

 fied the vendace up at Quickiock, but they told 

 me there that they do not begin to take them 

 until September. 



The largest pike I saw was 16 Ib. The pike 

 season here is short, and only lasts just during 

 the spawning time, for I rarely saw a pike taken 

 in a drag-net, but only in a large species of stake 

 bow-net, which is set in the ice, at the mouth of 

 any good spawning-ground. These we began to 

 set in the end of April. At first we took nothing 

 but perch, and after that pike, and then wound up 

 with grayling. I never saw either trout or gwyn- 

 niad taken in a bow-net, but occasionally a burbot 

 finds his way in ; there appears to be no way of 

 taking gwynniad but in drag-nets. The quantity 

 of pike sometimes caught in one night is astonish- 

 ing. I once recollect seeing two men come home 

 in the morning with as many pike as they could 

 bear suspended from a long pole, which they 

 carried between them on their shoulders. They 

 must have had above 2 cwt. Three weighed 

 above 12 Ib. each. But, as with the game, so 

 with the fish, they must gradually decrease when 



