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to the fifh, who in their turn are a fupport to the 
migratory Laplanders 
Whilft when the folar beams falute their fight, 
Bold and fecure in half a year of light, 
Uninterrupted voyages they take 
To the remoteft woods, and fartheft lake *. 
Tn fuch excurfions thofe vacant people find a luxu- 
rious and ready repaft in thefe fifh, which they drefs 
and eat without the addition** of fauces; for exer- 
cife and temperance render ufelefs the inventions of 
epicurifm. 
There are but few lakes in our ifland that pros 
duce this fifh, and even thofe not in any abundance. . 
ic is found in /Vinander Mere in Weftmorland ;.in 
Llyn Quellyn, near the foot of Snowdon, and before 
the difcovery of the copper-mines, in thofe of Liyn- 
berris, but the mineral {treams have entirely deftroyed 
the fith in the laft lakes+. Whether the waters of 
Treland afford the charr, we are uncertain, but ima- 
gine not, except it has been overlocked by their 
writers on the natural hiftory of that kingdom. In 
Scotland it 1s tound in Loch Inch, and other neigh- 
boring lakes, and is faid to go into the Spey to 
{pawn. 
Flora Lapponica, we difcover three other fpecies, viz. Scirpus, 
No. 18, dlopecurus, No. 33, Ranunculus, No. 234.3 but thofe fo 
thinly feattered over the Lapland lakes, as {till to vindicate our 
affertion, as to the fcarcenefs of plants in the waters of alpine 
countries, 
* Prior’s Solcmon. Book I. 
** Arted. Sp. pifc. 52. 
} They are alio found in certain lakes in Marioneihjbire. 
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