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above the bridge through which the river Dee i/Tues ; 
and though I never taw the Gvvyniad taken in the 
Dee, yet I was moft authentically informed by a 
gentleman who wasprefent, thatfeveral of them were 
caught within thefe three years as low down as 
Landriilo, which is near fix meafured miles from the 
lake of Bala. 
With regard to the Gwyniad’s being peculiar to 
this lake, which is lo generally believed, I can mylelf 
mod: flatly contradict this notion, as the fir ft parcel of 
iifh, which I happened to fee in the market at 
Perith, in Cumberland, were of this fort, and were 
brought from the Ulles Water, which is a large lake 
not above four or five miles dihant from that town. 
I have been likewile informed, by fome people, who 
lived on the banks of Loch Lomond in Scotland, 
that fifh answering to my defcription of a Gwvniad 
were often caught in that lake. I did not happen 
however, myfelf, to fee any of this fort. 
There is indeed one very {hiking mark in this 
fifh, which cannot but be attended to by thofe even 
who are not naturalihs : they have ventral fins of a 
very deep blue ; and the belly, at moh feafons, is 
marked with fmall bluefpecks, which I do not recollect 
to have obferved in any other fifh of this ifland. 
I have thus endeavoured to contribute my poor mite 
with regard to the natural hihory of Wales,, which I 
have been enabled to hate with fome precilion, from 
having had occafion to go twice a year into the prin- 
cipality, and to hay hx or feven days in a particular 
place. 
When I have mentioned to fome friends, w ho are 
verfed in botany, and the hudy of natural hihory, the 
neceffity 
