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Salmon Trout. This species has a phosphoric 

 property, which distinguishes it from many other. 

 Dr. Block says, he saw one evening a light accru- 

 ing from the head of a salmon-trout ; its eyes, 

 tongue, palate, and fins, spread a very great light, 

 which much increased when it was touched with 

 the finger, and which conveyed to another part of 

 the trout the same phosphoric appearance. 



About forty years ago a trout was caught in 

 the Thames, near Hampton, which measured two 

 feet nine inches. Hansard's Trout Fishing. 



Trout of a particular species are taken in 

 Ulleswater, to the weight of thirty pounds, also 

 eels of a large size, and guiniads in large quan- 

 tities. 



They are said to weigh thirty pounds in the 

 lakes of Cumberland, a salmon was taken in the 

 river Kennel that measured forty-five inches, and 

 one was taken of late years at Hampton that mea- 

 sured thirty-nine inches. Donovan, p. 85. 



Gillaroo Trout. The peculiarity of this trout 

 is, that its stomach very much resembles the 

 gizzard of a bird gillaroo (being the name for a 

 gizzard), where in most of the loughs in Ireland 

 these fish are to be found. 



Gent. Mag. xliv. 530. 



