Warie- 
ties. 
Spawn- 
ing of 
the cafe 
¢harr. 
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The largeft and moft beautiful we ever received 
were taken in Winander Mere, and were communi- 
cated to us by the Rev. Mr. Farri/h, of Carlifle, with 
an account of their natural hiftory. He favored me 
with five fpecimens, two under the name of the 
Cafe Charr, male and female; another he called the 
Gelt Charr, i.e. a charr which had not {pawned the 
preceding feafon, and on that account is reckoned to 
be in the greateft perfection. ‘The two others were 
infcribed, the Red Charr, the Silver or Gilt Charr, the 
Carpio Lacus Benact, Raii fyn. pifc. 66, which lat 
are in Weftmorland diftinguifhed by the epithet red, 
eby reafon of the flefh affuming a higher color than 
the other when dreffed. 
On the clofeft examination, we could not difcover 
any f{pecific differences in thefe fpecimens, therefore 
muft defcribe them as the fame fifth, fubjeét only to 
a flicht variation in their form, hereafter to be 
noted. But there is in another refpect an effential 
difference, we mean in their ceconomy, which is in 
all beings invariable; the particulars we fhall deli- 
ver inthe very words of our obliging informant. 
The Umbla minor, or cafe charr, fpawns about 
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 
ittogether. ‘The Brathy has a black rocky bottom ; 
the bottom of the Rowthay 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 ftony, and refemble the 
channel 
