The TRO UT 
Is a very valuable river-fith ; the charaGters of which are 
thefe. It has a long body; its head is fhort and round, its 
~nofe blunt at the end: its tail is very broad; its mouth large, 
and each jaw. furnifhed with one row of fharp teeth. In its 
palate there are three parcels of teeth, each of an oblong figure, 
in the congeries, and all meeting in an angle near the end of 
the nofe; the tongue has alfo fix, eight, or ten teeth on it. 
It is very beautifully variegated on the fides with red fpots. 
‘The colour of the Trout, and of its {pots, varies greatly in 
different waters and different feafons; yet you may reduce 
each to one f{pecies. 
In Llyndivi (a lake in South Wales), there are Touts cal- 
led Coch y Dail, marked with red and black {pots about the 
fize of a fixpence; others, not fpotted, and of a reddifh hue, 
which fometimes weigh from eight to ten pounds: they are 
very ill tafted. In Lough Neagh, in Ireland, there are Trouts 
called Buddagh, many of which weigh thirty pounds; others 
are taken of a much fuperior fize, in Hulfe Water (a lake in 
Cumberland), the fame as thofe Trouts in the lakes of Geneva. 
The ftomachs of the common ‘routs are very thick and 
mufcular, as they feed on the fhell.fith of lakes and rivers ‘as 
“well as the {mall fith 5 and take gravel or ftones. into their 
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