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^eque inter geminos /pedes, neutricmque et utrumquef 

 ^i nee dum Salmo, nee Salar ambiguufque. 

 Amborum medio Fario intercepte fub anjo. 



Salmon ov falar, I'll pronounce thee neither; 

 A doubtful kind, that may be none, or either, 

 Fario, when ftopt in middle growth. 



In fadt the colors of the trout, and its fpots, 

 vary greatly in different waters, and in diiFerent 

 feafons ; yet each may be reduced to one fpecies. 

 In Llyndivi, a lake in South Wales^ are trouts 

 called Coch y dail^ marked with red and black fpots 

 as big as Xix-pences ; others unfpotted, and of a 

 reddifh hue, that fometimes weigh near ten pounds, 

 hut are bad tafted. 



In Lough Neagh in Ireland^ are trouts called 

 there Buddaghs^ which I was told fometimes weigh- 

 ed thirty pounds, but it was not my fortune to fee 

 any during my flay in the neighborhood of that vafl: 

 water. 



Trouts (probably of the fame fpecies) are alfo 

 taken in Hulfe-water^ a lake in Cumherlandy of a 

 much fuperior fize to thofe of Lough Neagh, Thefe 

 are fuppofed to be the fame with the trout of the 

 lake of Geneva^ a filh I have eaten more than 

 once, and think but a very indifferent one. 



In the river Eynion^ not far from Machynlleth, Crooked 

 in Merionethjhire, and in one of the Snow don lakes, Trouts. 

 are found a variety of trout, which are naturally 

 deformed, having a (Irange c.^ookednefs near the 



tail, 



