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taken in the nets fiear the river's mouth, where the 

 water was almost brackish. A friend of mtae fishing 

 the Salangs river, in 1863, goes even further, and 

 says that they not only caught the charr in the 

 river's mouth constantly, hut that the fish even had 

 the sea louse on them, showing that this species of 

 charr was migratory like the salmon. Now, the 

 consideration for us is, not that our charr are not 

 found in such places, but that the Scandinavian 

 charr are ; and as there is no great difference in the 

 character of many of our rivers and lakes, and many 

 of the Scandinavian rivers and lakes, it certainly 

 appears to me that we might easily transplant and 

 add this very delicious fish to our fauna with con- 

 siderable advantage. I have had specimens of a 

 charr sent me from Iceland, of two and three pounds' 

 weight There they appear to inhabit the most rapid 

 streams, and they take the fly and bait as freely as 

 the trout. They were sent to me by Mr. Hogarth, 

 the lessee of the river Sog, where they abound in 

 profusion, as a kind of trout, a belief which I was 

 the means of dispelling. The Scandinavian charr is 

 constantly taken of seven and eight pounds' weight, 

 and, according to Mr. Lloyd, of sometimes double 

 that weight. 



The Ombre Chevalier, as I have said, is supposed 



