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oily in a few days, though kept frozen folid all the 
time. At Hudfon’s Bay this fifh is thought to be dry 
and infipid j its weight is from one to eight pounds. 
The third fpecies of fifh, from this cold climate, 
is by the natives called Tickotncg , and is our G'lviniad 
or Salmo Lavaretus , Linn. ; only the fize is fomewhat 
bigger, for the greateft fpecimen fent over meafures 
1 8 inches from the head to the tip of the tail, is 
44 inches deep, and not above an inch and | thick. 
This fifh differs in no circumftance from our Gwi- 
niad, but the length. You mentioned in your Britifh 
Zoology (Vol. III. p. 269.) a Ferra or Gwiniad 
from Switzerland 1 5 inches long, as an uncommon 
fize * - } the Hudfon’s Bay fifh, as I have before ob- 
ferved, is 18 inches long, and 44 inches its greateft 
depth. The great abundance of food, and the fmall 
number of inhabitants, who let the fifh grow up un~ 
difturbed, are perhaps the caufes of their uncommon 
bignefs. They weigh from 1 § pound to 3 pounds, 
fays Mr. Graham ; but, I am fure, the fifh I exa- 
mined muft, when frefh, have weighed more. Thefe 
fifh abound in the River Severn in Hudfon’s Bay, 
from its origin in the great lakes to its mouth, where 
it empties itlelf into the bay. The natives catch five 
or fix hundred a day, by means of wears which 
they contrive in the river : they will not take bait, 
and are poor at the breaking of the ice in the river. 
In the middle of the fummer, after a gale of wind. 
* However, the Gwiniads of Lapland, a fimilar climate to 
that of the Hudfon’s Bay, are vaftly large. Brit, Zool. III.. 
367. note. 
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