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lakes, and which, seem always to associate together, 

 appear to produce offspring, which, in colour, form, 

 and power of growth and reproduction, resemble 



Great Lake Trout. 



the parent fishes ; and they generally choose the same 

 river for their spawning. Thus, in the lake of 

 Guarda, the Benacus of the ancients, the magnificent 

 trout, or Salmofario, which in colour and appearance 

 is like a fresh run salmon, spawns in the river at 

 Eiva, beginning to run up for that purpose in June, 

 and continuing to do so all the summer ; and this 

 river is fed by streams from snow and glaciers in the 

 Tyrol, and is generally foul : whilst the small spotted 

 common trouts, which are likewise found in this lake, 

 go into the small brooks, which have their sources 

 not far off, and in which, it is probable, they were 

 originally bred. I have seen taken in the same net 



