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30S C H A R R. Class IV. 



Varieties. Oil the clofefl examination, we could not dif- 

 cover any fpecific differences in thefe fpecimens, 

 therefore mud defcribe them as the fame fifh, fub- 

 jecl only to a ilight variation in their form, here- 

 after to be noted. . But there is in another refpe6t 

 an elTential difference, vve mean in their ceconomy, 

 which is in all beings invariable ^ the particulars 

 we (hall deliver in the very words of our obliging 

 informant. 



The Umhki minor^ or cafe charr, fpawns about 

 ciiARR. Michaelmas^ and chiefly in the river Brathy^ which 

 uniting with another called the Rowthay^ about a 

 quarter of a mile above the lake, they both fall 

 into it too'ether. The Brathv has a black rockv 

 bottom i the bottom of the Roivthay is a bright 

 fand, and into this the charr are .never obferved 

 to enter. Some of them however fpawn in the lake, 

 but always in fuch parts of it which are flony, and 

 refemble the channel of the Brathy. They are fup- 

 pofed to be in the higheft perfection about May^ 

 and continue fo all the fummer, yet are rarely 

 caught after JpriL When they are fpawning in 

 the river they will take a bait, but at no other 

 time, being commonly taken, as well as the other 

 fpecies, in what they call hreaft 7tets, which are in 

 length about twenty-four fathoms, and about five, 

 where broadeft. 

 Gilt The feafon which the other fpecies fpawns in is 



from the beginning of January to the end of 

 Manh. They are never known to afeend the 



rivers. 



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