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at Cuthel, on the Tamar, and near Bodman, on the river Alan, 
at a wear of Mr. Flammock of Bofcarn. 
The Lakes in Cornwall are but three; Dofmery Pool yields onlv 
eels ; the Swan Pool, near Falmouth, eels very large and good, with 
a mixture of fmall fea-fifh ; but the Lo Pool, in Kerrier hundred, 
nourifhes a trout, which deferves more particular notice. Of this 
the icon may be feen with the feveral parts by meafurement, Plate 
xxvi. Fig. 1. The eye is large, the back of a deep black purple, 
on which the fcales of a Fiver hue ; the belly, from the ftraight 
line which paffes from the gills to the middle of the tail, of a bright 
pearl colour. The fpots are hexagonal annulets of a fcarlet colour 
in general, but purplifh on the back, pierced of the field they Band 
on ; the anterior back-fin has thirteen fpines, wavy at the top, with 
fmall tender points ; the pofterior back-fin is entirely carneous, 
without any fpines ; the gill-fins foliaceous in fhape, with twelve 
fpines ; the belly-fin fmall, with nine fpines ; the anus-fin nine 
fpines ; the tail-fin remarkably large, and very little forked ; the 
flefh very red in the feafon, and much efteemed. The falmon-pele 
above-mentioned is very different from this trout, being more cir- 
cular in the back ; the lower mandible rather longer than the 
upper ; the belly more filvered ; the body deeper, and lefs round ; 
the gill-fin and anus-fin lefs in proportion ; the belly-fin larger, and 
the tail more forkled. This is perhaps a larger fort of the fialmulus 
Baltneri. Will. Tab. N. 4, Fig. 3. 
The fea is the great ftore-houfe of Cornwall, which offers sect.il 
not its treafures by piece-meals, nor all at once, but in fuccef- Sea-fifh, and 
fion; all in plenty in their feveral feafons, and annually, as it^ cctace “ 
were to give time to difpofe of what is fent ; and yet in fuch vari- 
ety, as if nature was follicitous to prevent any excefs or fuperfluity 
of the fame kind. 
Of the Balczna or whale kind (that I may follow the ufual order 
of Idthyologifts) we have the blower or fin-fifh (the phyfieter of 
authors) fo called by the antients from the quantity of water which, 
from its mouth, it blows aloft into the air through a pipe or hole 
in the head adapted to this particular ufe. Balcena edentula corpore 
firiSliore dorfio pinnato. Ray, Syn. page 9. 
The grampus, or Porcus marinus major of Ray, page 15; the 
Delphinus rofiro fiurfium repando de?itibus latis fierratis of Artedi * , 
page 106. It is ufually about eighteen feet long, fometimes large 
enough to weigh a thoufand pounds weight ; fo voracious, that it 
will prey upon the porpefle itfelf, though of its own likenefs. 
Ray, ibid. 
* A late learned Swede, whofe accurate account of fifh was publiflied after his death by Dr. Linnaeus. 
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