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■the Eye would judge it Wood, till they come to try it. 
1 bad a Piece about fixteen Inches long, that look’d as if 
it had been a great Chip cut out of the fide oi an Oak- 
Block, with the Bark on it $ and in cutting fuch Chips, 
there happens generally fome Shakes or Flaws in fuch 
large Chips, fo that there will be a Separation of Parts 
atone end, and they remain firm at the other, as it was 
in this. 1 could have rais’d feveral of fuch Splinters of 
this large Chip, fome bigger and fome lefs ^ and when 
fo raifed, they would have flap’d down as though they 
were a Spring. Some of thofe Stones would appear at 
one end as if rotten, and decayed Wood 5 but trying it, 
it was as much Stone, as any other Parr. 
Now as to the Lake itfelf, your Lordfhip has feen it, 
and I may forbear to give your Lordlhip an Account of 
the Boundaries thereof : However, it is reputed to be 
Twenty four Miles long, and Twelve Miles broad, and 
Navigable from CharUmourtt to Portienoue , which is a- 
bout Thirty five Miles. It does not abound with many 
forts of Fiflh, but thofe that are are very good, fuch as Sal- 
mon, Trout, Pike, Breame, Roch, Eels and Pollans, with 
whichlaft it does abound : The Englifi call them fre(h 
Water Herrings, for want of another Name 5 for Pollan 
is an Irifi Name. They catch them in the Summer with 
Seives, as they do Herrings, and they are a great Re- 
lief to the Poor, being very cheap : They are much in 
fhape and bignefs like to the largeft Smelts, full of 
very large bright Scales, and pleafant Mea f , being eat 
frelh. Thefe were fuppofed to bea peculiar Fifii to that 
Lake 5 but fince I came here, I find Lough Earne has the 
fame forr, but not in fo great Plenty. They are gene- 
rally caught here in their Eel Nets, running to the Sea 5 
fo that I am of Opinion, that they are that fort of Fifh 
that is C iUght in the Sea, or between thefrelb and Salt- 
Water, call’d Shads 5 and that the large ones come 
from the Sea, as the Salmon doth, and leave their 
Spawn 
