256 C OHTA MRA: Cla& IV. 
VI. The iG eA eee ee 
L’Omble, ou Humble. Belez. tralibus rubris, maxilla in- 
281. feriore longiore. Arred. Syite 
Umbla feu Humble Belcnii. 25. 
Gefner pife. 1005. Salmo Alpinus. Liz. ff. 510. 
Umbla minor. Geyzer pie. 1013. Gronov, Zooph. No. 372. 
Torgoch Wallis. Weftmorlandis Roding, Lapponibus Raud. 
Red Charre Lacus Winander Faun. Juec. No. 124. 
meré. Wal. Icth. 196. Rati Charr-fith. Phil. Tranf. 1755. 
Syn» pift. 65. 210. 
Salmo vix pedalis, pinnis ven- 
HE charr is an inhabitant of the lakes of 
the north, and of thofe of the mountanous 
parts of Europe. It affects clear and pure waters, 
and is very rarely known to wander into running 
ftreams, except into fuch whofe bottom is fimilar 
to the neighboring lake. 
It is found in vaft abundance in the cold lakes on 
the fummits of the Lapland Alps, and is almoft the 
only fifth that is met with in any plenty in thofe re- 
gions; where it would be wonderful how they fub- 
fitted, had not Providence fupplied them with in- 
numerable Jarve of the Guat kind*: thefe are food 
* A pupil of Linnaeus remarks in the fourth volume of the 
Amen. Acad. p.156, that the fame infeéis which are fach a peft 
to the rein deer, afford fuftenance to the 4fh of the vatt lakes 
and rivers of Lagland. But at the fame time that we wonder 
at Linngus’s inattention to the food of the birds and fifh of that 
country, which abound even to a noxious degree, we mutit, in 
juitice to that gentleman, acknowlege an overfight of our own 
in the fecond volume of the Briti/b Zoology, p. 522, where we 
give the Lapland waters only one fpecies of water plant; for 
on a more carefal review_of that elaborate performance, the 
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