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circumstances from visiting the sea. Thus Mr. 

 Lloyd observes, that " near Katrineberg there is a 

 valuable fishing for salmon, ten or twelve thousand 

 of these fish being taken annually. These salmon 

 are bred in a lake, and in consequence of cataracts, 

 cannot have access to the sea. They are small in 

 size, and inferior in flavor." * Now we saw a basket 

 full of these fish at Trollhaetta, in the autumn of 

 1819, and found them to be great loch trouts, the 

 same, so far as we could judge, with those of Scot- 

 land. It remains, perhaps, to be determined 

 whether they agree with or differ from such as in- 

 habit the Swiss waters. Mr. Yarrell has adduced 

 this lacustrine incident as a proof that salmon may 

 exist permanently in fresh water ;( but we are glad 

 to perceive that in his Supplement^ he states his 

 belief that specimens of the great Swedish trout 

 from Lake Wener, killed by Sir Thomas Maryon 

 Wilson, were the same as our Scottish kind. They 

 were taken by spinning with bleak, and the largest 

 measured forty-two inches in length, and weighed 

 about thirty-four pounds, the second thirty-two, 

 the third twenty-seven. These large trouts were 

 males. The females are said rarely to exceed 

 twenty -two pounds. 



We fear we have been rather prolix on this, as 

 well as on other departments of our subject. But 

 we felt anxious to call the attention of anglers and 

 naturalists to these curious enquiries, being satis- 

 fied that a more attentive examination of the finny 



* FIELD SPORTS, vol. i. p. 301. 

 t BRITISH FISHES, vol. xi. p. 20. $ P. 14. 



