408 CHARR SALMON. Class IV. 



how they subsisted, had not Providence sup- 

 plied them with innumerable larval of the Gnat 

 kind : * these are food to the fishes, who in their 

 turn are a support to the migratory Laplanders 

 in their summer voyages to the distant lakes. 

 In such excursions those vacant people find a 

 luxurious and ready repast in these fishes, which 

 they dress and eat without the addition \ of 

 sauces ; for exercise and temperance render use- 

 less the inventions of epicurism. 



There are but few lakes in our island that 

 produce this fish, and even those not in any 

 abundance. It is found in Winander Mere in 

 1 Vest mor eland ; in Llyn Cawellyn, near the foot 

 of Snowdon ; and before the discovery of the 



* A pupil of Linnaeus remarks in the fourth volume of the 

 Amoen. Acad. p. 156, that the same insects which are such a 

 pest to the rein deer, afford sustenance to the fishes of the vast 

 lakes and rivers of Lapland. But at the same time that we 

 wonder at Linnaeus?, inattention to the food of the birds and 

 fishes of that country, which abound even to a noxious degree, 

 we must, in justice to that Gentleman, acknowledge an over- 

 sight of our own in the second volume of the British Zoology, 

 p. 522, edition the second, where we give the Lapland waters 

 only one species of water plant ; for on a more careful review 

 of that elaborate performance, the Flora Lapponica, we discover 

 three other species, viz. Scirpus, No, 18, Alopecurus, No. 38, 

 Ranunculus, No. 234; but those so thinly scattered over the 

 Lapland lakes, as still to vindicate our assertion, as to the scarce- 

 ness of plants in the waters of alpine countries. 

 • f Arted. Sp.pisc. 52. 



