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been taken with a fly made of red feathers; and he will rise 
at a fly not unlike a gnat or a small moth, or indéed at most 
flies that are not too big. He is a fish that lurks close all 
winter, but is very pleasant and jolly after mid-April, and in 
May, and in the hot months. He is of a very fine shape; his 
flesh is white; his teeth, those little ones that he has, are in 
his throat; yet he has so tender a mouth that he is oftener 
lost after an angler has hooked him than any other fish. 
Though there be many of these fishes in the delicate River 
Dove, and in Trent, and some of the smaller rivers, as that 
which runs by Salisbury, yet he is not so general a fish as 
the trout, nor to me so good to eat or to angle for, and so I 
shall take leave of him.” 
“Genus Thymallus, Cuvier.—Of this genus the grayling 
(Thymallus vulgaris) is the type. The fish is common in 
some of our streams, but is a local species. It differs chiefly 
from the trouts or salmons in having the mouth less deeply 
cleft, the orifice square, the anterior dorsal very high, and 
the scales larger.”— Penny Cyclopedia. 
In France the grayling is classified with the genus Onbre 
(umber), of which there are several families in the streams 
of Europe; and the Ombre commune, or grayling, is charac- 
terized by a very small, square mouth, like that of the smelt 
or the mullet, but provided with numerous infinitesimal teeth 
far back in the mouth, on the roof or palate; by scales, rath- 
er large and very exactly placed, one lapping another; by a 
high and wide first dorsal fin, which commences much farther 
forward than others of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo, 
and by its close resemblance to the trout in internal confor- 
mation. 
“The grayling, though sufficiently common in divers points 
of France, is rarely scen in the markets of Paris. It is one of 
those beautiful fishes of the fresh waters. Nothing so grace- 
ful as its gradual elongated form from the front of its high 
dorsal to its tail. Nothing is more elegant than its ma- 
geotre dorsal, a magnificent sail, very long, and of a remarka- 
