3o6 C H A R R. Class IV. 



dreams, except into fuch whofe bottom is fimilar 

 to the neighboring; lake. 



It is found in vafb abundance in the cold lakes 

 on the fummits of the Lapland Alps ^ and is almoft 

 the only fifh that is met with in any plenty in 

 thofe regions ; where it would be wonderful how 

 they fubfided, had not Providence fupplied them 

 with innumerable /^r-j<j? of the Gnat kind*: thefe 

 are food to the nfh, who in their turn are a fup- 

 port to the migratory Laplanders in their fummer 

 voyages to the difbant lakes. 



In fuch excurfions thofe vacant people find a 

 luxurious and ready repaft in thefe fifh, which 

 they drefs and eat without the addition-]- of fauces; 

 fcr exercife and temperance render ufelefs the in- 

 ventions of epicurifm. 



* A pupil oiLi-iuiiSus remarks in the fourth \'olume of the 

 Aman. Acad. p. 156, that the fame infedls which are fuch a 

 peft to the rein deer, afford fuftenance to the iifn of the vafl 

 lakes and rivers of Lapland. But at the fame time that we 

 wonder at Limneus's inattention to the food of the birds and 

 liili of that country, which abound even to a noxious degree, 

 we mult, in juirice to that Gentleman, acknowledge an over- 

 fight of our own in the fecond volume of the Britijh Zoology^ 

 p. 522, edition the fecond, where we give-the Lapland waters 

 only one fpecies of water plant ; for on a more careful review 

 cf that elii borate performance, the Flora Lapponica, we dif- 

 cover three other fpecies, viz. Scirpus, No. 18, Alopecurus, 

 No. 38, Ranunculus, No. 234; but thofe fo thinly fcattered over 

 the Lapland lakes, as ftill to vindicate our alfertion, as to the 

 fcarcenefs of plants in the waters of alpine countries. 



t Arud. Sp. pi/c. 52. 



There 



