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. Farrish 

 of Carlisle, wrote me word, that he was assured 

 by an Uls-water 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 Chairs 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 



* Lyttelton, bishop of Carlisle. Ed. f Vol. ii. 790. 



