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as one of the largest kinds : this, he tells us, bears the name of 
a town in Kent, near Canterbury, where it is usually caught: many 
of those Trout, he observes, are nearly as large as the Salmon, but 
are known by the difference of their colour ; and the flefh, in their 
best season, cuts very white: these, Walton supposed, hved alter- 
nately nine months in the sea, and three in the river. The Trouts 
of Ireland called by the natives Buddaghs, are found of a large size 
in Lough Neagh, some of which have been known to weigh thirty 
pounds. Trouts are also taken in Hulse Water, a lake in Cumber- 
land, which are reported to be of a size superior to those*. In the 
reign of Charles the second, a Trout was taken in the river Kennet, 
near Newberry, with a casting net, that measured forty-five inches f. 
One of the largest we have seen was caught ir. a stream contiguous to 
the Thames, near Hampton, Surrey, about three years ago. This gi- 
gantic creature measured thirty nine inches from the tip of the nose to 
the end of the tail : the jaws of this overgrown fish were more elonga- 
ted than usual in the Trout, and both those and the tongue were armed 
with strong incurvated teeth, of a white colour, tinged with pale vio- 
let ; and as in the Salmon, when out of season, the tip of the lower 
jaw turned up, and was received when the mouth closed, between the 
two fore teeth in the upper jaw. The colour was subolivaceous on 
the back, tinged with fine golden yellow ; on the sides were several 
broad spaces of a lighter colour, marked with a cluster of scarlet 
Spots ; and the back was spotted with orange. The whole of the 
lower surface was of a pale Salmon colour ; the fins yellowifh, with 
the rays pale pink at the extremity, and' at the base orange colour ; the 
pectoral fin and tip of the dorsal fin, and tail dusky ; the two latter 
* It is said those are sometimes found so large as to weigh thirty’poundj. 
t §ir J, Hawkins note on Walton Camp. Angl. p. 122. 
