SECT. I 
River and 
lake-fifti. 
262 NATURAL HISTORY 
county, as they were before divided into rivers, lakes, and lea, and 
with as much order as thefe departments will admit. 
In our rivers, befides eels and minies, and other lefs confidera- 
ble, we have the fhote d , a fmall kind of trout, but in ponds grow- 
ing to about twelve or fourteen inches long, and by fome reckoned e 
in a manner peculiar to this and its neighbouring county : the flefh 
is white and lefs firm than that of the trout : it is common in all 
brooks which are not infedted with the mundic-waters of our mines, 
waters fatal to all fifh fooner or later, but much fooner to thofe 
which delight in clear running water as the fhote does. This fifh 
may be feen in Willughby’s Tab. N. 4, Fig. 2, but indeed not 
to advantage. 
In our Cornifh rivers we have not the jack, perch, carp, cray- 
fifh, or others with which Providence hath flocked the rivers in 
the more inland parts of Britain, as it were to make amends for 
their being fo diftant from the much greater variety of fea-fifh; but 
of the trout kind we have feveral forts, and in their feafon in great 
plenty. In the laft age there was a remarkably good one in the 
river Conar, which divides the parifh of Camborn from Gwinear and 
Gwythien; but the many mines which have been of late years 
wrought in the neighbourhood, have deftroyed this fifh. In the 
rivers Alan and Laine, near Pendavy, they take a grey trout in the 
fummer time, the flefh of which is red and delicate. In the river 
Fawy, near Loflwythyel, is taken the black trout in the month of 
May, and till the latter end of June, fometimes three feet long ; 
in July the falmon-pele comes up the fame river, but is more com- 
monly caught at the mouths of rivers, and in the fea- waters, than 
in the rivers themfelves ; and about the latter end of Auguft luc- 
ceeds a trout, called, from the time of its appearing, the Bartho- 
lomew Trout, not fo large as the black trout, being about eighteen 
inches, rarely more ; it is deeper in the belly, cuts red, and is 
efteemed by fome before the black trout, and both before the fal- 
mon. The falmon is properly a fea-fifh, and comes only occafionally 
into the river, as to a place of more fecurity from ftorm and enemy, 
to caft its fpawn, on which it is fo intent, that it will go up into 
large rivers four or five hundred miles f , then returns to the fea as 
its proper element, but muft be placed here, becaufe the rivers 
generally afford us this fifh. It is caught in the river Fawy at two 
Wears, one belonging to Lanhidrock, the other to Glyn, from the 
the latter end of the Ipring to the end of autumn. The falmon is 
taken alfo in the feafon in great plenty at Lord Edgcumbe’s Wear 
d Trutta fluviatilis minor. c Carew, page 26 f Ray’s Creation, page 130. 
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