Class IV. GWYNIAD SALMON. 421 



The British name Gwiniad, or whiting, was 

 bestowed on it for the same reason. 



It is a gregarious fish, and approaches the 

 shores in vast shoals in spring and in summer, 

 which prove in many places a blessed relief to 

 the poor of inland countries, in the same degree 

 as the annual return of the herring is to those 

 who inhabit the coasts. The Rev. Mr. Farrisk 

 of Carlisle, wrote me word, that he was assured 

 by an Uls-ivater fisherman, that last summer he 

 took between seven and eight thousand at one 

 draught, I must not pass by that gentleman 

 without acknowledging my obligations to him 

 for an account of the Charrs and the Schelly ; 

 he being; one of the valuable embellishers of this 

 work, for whom I am indebted to the friendship 

 of his late worthy prelate.* 



The Gwyniad is a fish of an insipid taste, and 

 must be eaten soon, for it will not keep long ; 

 those who choose to preserve them do it with 

 salt. They die very soon after they are taken. 

 Their spawning season in Llyntegid is in De~ 

 cember. 



It has long ago been observed in Camden,'\ 

 that these fish never wander into the Dee, or 

 the salmon ever ventures into the lake : this 

 must be allowed to be generally the case ; but 



* Lyltelton, bishop of Carlisle. Ed. -\ Vol. ii. ^QQ. 



