420 GWYNIAD SALMON. Class IV. 



of Norway, Szveden, Lapland* and Scotland; 

 in those of Ireland, and of Cumberland • and 

 in Wales, in that of Llyntegid, near Bala, in 

 Meirionethsh ire. 



It is the same with the Terra of the lake of 

 Geneva, the Schelly-f of Uls-water, the Pollen 

 of Lough Neagh, and the Vangis and Jwcangis 

 of Z,ocA Mabon. The Scotch have a tradition 

 that it was first introduced there by their beau- 

 teous queen, the unhappy Mary Stuart ; and 

 as, in her time, the Scotch court was much 

 frenchified, it seems likely that the name was 

 derived from the French, vendoise, a dace ; to 

 which a slight observer might be tempted to 

 compare it from the whiteness of its scales. 



* Schceffer, in his historv of Lapland, p. 140, says, that these 

 fishes are caught there of the weight of ten or twelve pounds. 

 We wish Linnaeus had executed his intention of favoring the 

 world with his Lachesis Lapponica, in which he promised a 

 complete history of that country. I once reminded him of it, 

 and it is with true regret, that I give his answer : Nunc nimis 

 serd inciperem, 



Me quoque delilitat series bnmensa lalorum, 

 Ante meum tempus cogor et esse senem : 



Firma sit ilia licet solvetur in cequore navis, 

 Qua nunquam liquidis sicca carelit aquis. 



f The inhabitants of Cumberland give this name also to the 

 chub, from its being a scaly fish. 



