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according to the feafon, refembles that of the fins of 
a roach, a fifh very common in many rivers of Eng~ 
land, though we have none of them in this country. 
The male is not adorned with that beautiful hue, yet 
he is finely fhaded, and marbled upon the back and 
fides with black ftreaks, upon a kind of pellucid light 
fky-coloured ground. The make is that of a trout, 
but much more elegant and delicate ; infomuch that 
the vulgar hereabouts affirm, that a charr is nothing elfe 
but a trout in high feafon. Certainly there is a very 
great likenefs, though in one refpedt the charr feems 
nearly allied to the eel and the tench, in being very 
flimy j and the cure and potting of charrs well de- 
pends very much upon cleanfing and draining them 
of this mucilaginous quality. Whether you boil, ftew, 
or fry them, they tafte like a trout, but much more 
fimple and infipid. They appear with us but at one 
feafon of the year, about the winter-folflicci their 
flay is of a ffiort continuance, as if an ad of necef- 
fity, and they were in hafte to be gone to fome 
more remote and private habitations. Three lakes 
or large pools, at the foot of Snowden, afford being 
and fubhftence to this remarkable finny race : two of 
them (in our Gwyddhelian Language) we call Llynian 
I.lanberris ; i. e. the pools or lakes of Llanberris, or 
the parifli of Llanberris. The upper pool is called 
Llyn-Ucha, and the lower one Llyn-Iffa. There is 
a communication between one and the other. About 
a fortnight in December the charrs make their ap- 
pearance in both; never wandering far from the 
verge of thefe lakes, or the mouths of the rivers iffuing 
from them ; but traverfe from one end to the other, 
and from ffiore to fiiore indifferently, or perchance 
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