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<c traper un jeune brocket, qui effedivemeut fe trouva 
cc borgne du cote droit. Ce qu’il y a de fmgulier 
“ c’eit que cette fontaine fe decharge par un aflez 
<{ grosruifleau dans la Liflbnne, & que malgre cette 
“ communication, qui eh tres facile, les gens du pai’s 
aflurent qu’on ne prend jamais dans cette riviere de 
“ brochets borgnes, ou aveugles, & qu’on n’en prend 
“ aucuns dans la fontaine qui ne le foient.” 
I refer you for this extrad to page 2 7 and 28, of 
the Hiftory of the Academy of Sciences for the 
year 1748, being the quarto edition, which you was 
fo good as to lend me on this occafion 
The latter part of this extrad, which aflerts that 
thefe blind pike are only to be found in the pool of 
Gabard, and not in the fmall river by which it com- 
municates with the Liffonne, fuggefts to me that it is 
generally fuppofed (and even by Lhvvyd in his ad- 
ditions to Cambden’s Britannia) falmon are never 
caught in the lake of Bala in Merionethshire, though 
they are frequently taken in the river Dee, juft below 
where it iflues from that lake ; whilfl: the contrary is 
obferved with regard to the fifli called a Gwyniad, 
which is at the fame time conceived to be peculiar to 
this lake. 
I happened myfelf once to fee a falmon of about 
fifteen pound, caught in the lake, at leaft 200 yards 
•* I am likewife referred by an ingenious friend to a paffage in 
Fr. Ern. Bruckmanni Epiftola Itineraria xxxvi. Wolfenb. 1734, 
p. 10, which mentions a river in Germany, having all the trout 
blind : “ T ruttae omnes (tefte P. Stephan. Amiodt, de Germania 
“ in naturae operibus admiranda, p. 66.) in fiumine Fifchau prope 
“ Mandorf vifu deftituta; dicuntur. Vide plura apud Kirkelbeck,* 
€ ‘ p. 809, E. Brown in Itin. p. 196. and Math. Fuel in Iten. 
Thalailico, p. 33.” 
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