268 Gav l Nor Aw. Clafs IV: 
— It is the fame with the Ferra of the lake of 
Geneva, the Scheily *, of Hulfe-warer, the Pollen of ~ 
Lough Neagh, and the Vangis and Fuvangis of Loch 
Mabon. ‘The Scotch have a tradition that it was 
firft mtroduced there by the beauteous queen, their 
unhappy Mary Stuart, and as in her time the Scotch 
court was much frenchified, it feems likely that the 
name was derived from the French, vendoife, a dace ; 
to which a flight obferver might be tempted to 
compare it from tne whitenefs of its fcales. ‘The 
Britifh name Gwiniad, or whiting, was beftowed on 
it for the fame reafon. 
It is a gregarious fifh, and approaches the fhores 
in vaft fhoals in {pring and in fummer, which prove 
in many places a bleffed relief to the poor of inland 
countries, in the fame degree as the annual return 
of the herring 1s to thofe who inhabit the coafts. The 
Rev. Mr. Farri/b, of Carlifle, wrote me word, that 
he was affured by a Hul/e-water fifherman, that laft 
fummer he took between feven and eight thoufand 
at one draught. I muft not pafs by that gentleman 
without acknowleging my obligations to him for an 
account of the Chavrs and the Schelly; he being one 
of the valuable embellifhers of this work, for whom ~ 
I am indebted to the friendfhip of his late worthy 
prelate. 
The Gwiniad is a fifh of an infipid tafte, and muft 
be eaten foon, for it will not keep long; thofe that 
choofe to preferve them do it with ialt. They die — 
very foon after they are taken. Their fpawning fea- 
fon in Llyniegid is in December. 
* The inhabitants of Cumer/axd give this name alfo to the 
chub, from its being a fealy fith. 1 
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