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as the wind fits, in great bodies ; fo that it is a cora- 
mon tiling to take in one net twenty or thirty dozen. 
a night in this place ; and not above ten or a dozen 
h/li 111 all at any other. Thus in winter frofts and 
ripurs, they fport and play near the margins of the 
Rood, and probably depofit their fpawn, and continue 
ir kind; but in the fummer-heats they keep to 
the deep and center of water, abounding in mud and 
ar^e Hones, as the llioaler parts do with gravel : 
rovidence with-holding from mankind this delicious 
morfel, when it is lead fit to eat ; for after Chriftmas. 
they are feen no more till the following year. But 
Ae ihortnefs of their Hay in the two above-mentioned 
waters is made fome amends for by a fucceeding, 
rtough as Ihort a feafon, m a pool in my parifii, to 
which we give the name of Quellyn, from an an- 
cient family fo called, fituated hard-by; for the 
charr appears here immediately after Chriftmas; and 
fijme, though very few indeed, are taken in the 
trou -net even at midfummer, or rather at the two 
trout-feafons in fummer. ’Tis remarked, that the 
nf % than another- 
and laftly, I may add, that the whole number of 
charrs annually taken in the two pools of Llanberris 
docs not amount to an hundred dozen. 
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