Crooked 
trouts. 
Defer. 
252 Eo eRe Oe tape a Clafs IV, 
Trouts (probably of the fame fpecies) arealfo taken 
in Hulfewater, a lake in Cumberland, of a much fu- 
perior fize to thofe of Lough Neagh. 'Thefe are fup- 
poled to be the fame with the trout of the lake of 
of Geneva, a fifh I have eaten more than once, and 
think but a very indifferent one. 
In the river Eyniow, not far from Machyntleth, in 
Merionethfbire, and in one of the Suowdon lakes, are 
found a variety of trout, which are naturally de- 
formed, having a ftrange crookednefs near the tail, 
refembling that of the perch before deferibed. We 
_dwell the lefs on thefe monftrous productions, as our 
friend the Hon. Daines Barrington, has already given 
an account of them in an ingenious differtation on 
fome of the Cambrian fifh, publifhed in the Philo- 
fopbical Tranfaétions of the year 1767. 
Trouts are moft voracious fifh, and afferd excel- 
Jent diverfion to the angler: the paffion for the fport 
of angling is fo ftrong in the neighborhood of Lon- 
don, that the liberty of fifhing in fome of the ftreams 
in the adjacent counties, is purchafed at the rate of 
ten pounds per annum. 
Thefe fith fhift their quarters to fpawn, and, like 
falmon, make up towards the heads of rivers to de- 
pofit their roes. The under jaw of the trout is fub- 
ject, at certain times, to the fame curvature as that 
of the falmon. 
A trout taken in Liywallet, in Dendighjbire, which 
is famous for an excellent kind, meaiured feventeen 
inches, its depth three and three quarters, its weight 
one pound ten ounces: the head thick, the nofe ra- 
ther fharp: the upper jaw a little longer than the 
lower; 
