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the upper jaw being the broadeft, and the teeth hung 
over the lower, as might be perceived on paffing the 
finger over them. 
The branchioftegous rays were, on different fides 
of the fame fifh, unequal in number, viz. 12,--11, 
II,--10, 10--9, except in one, where they were 
Bese T TY 3 
The Gelt, or Barren Charr, was rather more flender 
than the others, as being without fpawn.. The back 
of a gloffy dufky blue: the fides filvery, mixed with 
blue, fpotted with pale red: the fides of the belly 
_ were of a pale red, the bottom white. 
The tails of each bifurcated. 
The charrs we have feen, brought from the Suzow- 
don \akes, were rather fmaller than thofe of We/t- 
morland: their colors paler. The fuppofed males very 
much refemble the Gelt Charr ; but that is not a cer 
tain diftinétion of fex, for the Rev. Mr. Far- 
riugton*, has told me that the fifhermen do not 
make that diftinction. 
* Who favored the Royal Society with a paper on the Wels 
charr. Vide Phil. Tranf. 1755. 
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