370 THE ANGLER-NATURALIST. 



mentioned by Pennant in his description of the Gwyniad, 

 is still in circulation."* 



"An idea prevails that this fish, if once taken from 

 the water, will die, and that its immediate return will be 

 of no avail; and it is also believed that it will not exist 

 in any other water except that of the Castle-loch. These 

 are of course opinions which have gradually, from dif- 

 ferent circumstances, gained weight, and have at last been 

 received as facts. The fish is of extreme delicacy a cir- 

 cumstance which may have given rise to the first notion 

 and the introduction of it must have taken place by means 

 of the spawn : the fish themselves, I am confident, could 

 not be transported alive even a few miles. As to the 

 second opinion, they are not confined to the Castle-loch, 

 but are found in several other neighbouring ones, some of 

 which have no communication with that where they are 

 thought to be peculiar." 



"In general habits the Vendace nearly resemble the 

 Gwyniad, and indeed most of the allied species of the 

 genus. They swim in large shoals ; and during warm and 

 clear weather retire to the depths of the lakes, apparently 

 sensible of the increased temperature. They are taken 

 with nets only a proper bait not being yet discovered; 

 and the fact that but little is found in their stomachs has 



* According to Dr. Davy, the same species exists in Derwentwater 

 and Bassenthwaite Lakes, Cumberland a fact which disposes at once 

 of the above ideas. The Vendace occasionally descends the Annan 

 to the Solway Frith, and has been taken in the stake-nets placed in 

 that estuary. 



