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large one from the Vxbridge river. The last, if I 

 recollect, was smaller, and out of season ; and its 

 stomach (notwithstanding it was very thick) was 

 much inferior in strength to that of the former ; 

 but on the whole, there was not the lest specific 

 difference between the two subjects. 



Trouts are most voracious fish, and afford 

 excellent diversion to the angler; the passion 

 for the sport of angling is so great in the neigh- 

 borhood of London, that the liberty of fishing in 

 some of the streams in the adjacent counties, is 

 purchased at the rate of ten pounds per annum. 



These fishes shift their quarters to spawn, 

 and, like the common salmon, make up towards 

 the heads of rivers to deposit their roes. The 

 under jaw of the trout is subject, at certain times, 

 to the same curvature as that of the salmon. 



A trout taken in Llynaled. in Denbighshire, Descrip- 

 which is famous for an excellent kind, measured 

 seventeen inches, its depth three and three quar- 

 ters ; its weight was one pound ten ounces ; the 

 head was thick ; the nose rather sharp ; the up- 

 per jaw a little longer than the lower; both 

 jaws, as well as the head, were of a pale brown, 

 blotched with black ; the teeth sharp and strong, 

 disposed in the jaws, roof of the mouth and 

 tongue, as is the case with the whole genus, ex- 

 cept the Gwyniad, which is toothless, and the 



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