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would have you send me some fresh ones, directed to my Lord 

 Lovell who is Postmaster Generall as you did the year before 

 last, which I think was by an express, but these came in a 

 wooden box, which made it to great a weight for the Post to 

 carry conveniently therefore these should be put into some sort 



of a basket and the fish packed in it in moss or some sort 



of thing that will keep them from bruzing and not give them a 

 taste. You let me know what day they will be in town that I 

 may give Ld Lovell notice of it that they may not lye at the 

 Post office. Let them you send me be well chosen fish and all 

 of the Red sort. When you have Particulars of the Bloom 

 Smithy Rents you'l send them me. — I am yours, Montagu. 

 'London, Jan. 27, 1738.' x 



Sir Daniel Fleming's correspondence includes a letter from 

 Dr. T. Smith, written April 1, [16]35, and addressed to him 

 at the lodgings of Lord Arlington, Whitehall, explaining the 

 difference between Char and Case. ' They are very much alike, 

 but the latter is smaller, and spawns at a different time.' 2 In 

 the lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire, observes 

 Jenyns, cited by Day, this fish in its ordinary state is the case 

 Chair of Pennant ; when exhibiting the bright crimson belly 

 which it assumes before spawning, it is called the redj Charr ; 

 when out of season, the spawn having been shed, it is distin- 

 guished by the name of the gilt Charr. In Sir Daniel's day, a 

 Charr pie cost 33s. for Charr alone. When the fish became 

 dear, housewives devoted their energies to potting Charr, instead 

 of making them into enormous pasties. Thus Clarke (1787) 

 observes of Windermere : ' The Charr in this Lake are of ex- 

 cellent quality for potting, many pots of which are sent to 

 different parts of the kingdom every year.' He adds : ' I do 

 not however think them superior in quality to the Ulswater 

 trout, and are distinguishable from them more by their colour 

 than taste ; so much alike indeed are they, that many pots of 

 Ulswater trout are sold for Winandermere Char. They are 

 taken in perfection in this lake only from the beginning of 



1 Cumberland and Westmorland Arch. Soc, vol. xi. p. 397. 



2 Eydal MS., p. 35. 



