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I have procured at two feveral times fpecimens of 
thefe trout like wife, nnd have one now by me in 
ipirits. They are crooked in the fame manner near 
the tail ; but, as the make of a trout is more taper 
than that of a perch, the curve does not appear. fo 
ilrongly : no one, however, who looks at them with 
any degree of attention, can have the lead: doubt oi 
their differing mod materially, from other fifh of the 
fame kind. 
Thefe trout are caught, only in a fmall bafon of 
perhaps eight or nine feet deep, which the river 
Eynion forms after a fall from the rocks, I have 
been informed, that, in a calm day, you may often 
fee them in this bafon j it hath fo happened that a 
good deal of wind hath ruffled the furface, when I 
have examined it. 
I have only to add to thefe particulars, that, by very 
accurate accounts from thofe, who have caught both 
the perch and trout, it is not above half of thefe fiffl 
which are thus crooked ; and that the others do not in 
any refpedt differ from the common ones of thefe two 
forts. 
As I have often obferved that the exidence offuch 
fifh was doubted by the Welfh themfelves, till I had 
procured thefe fpecimens, it hath occafioned my 
might probably be impregnated with fome mineral fait, efpecially 
as they are fituated near the largcft copper mine in Europe. 
Dan. Solander. 
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There is no copper mine near Llyn Raithlyn,or the river 
Evnion. 
J 
Daines Barrington. 
inquiring 
