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ALPtNE CHAR. 
sometimes found at the mouths of rivers and in the sea. In 
that country it sheds its roe in August. 
We have already remarked that although Chars are especially 
inhabitants of lakes, it is not every lake that will suit their 
nature and habits; but only such as are very deep, usually on 
elevated ground; or, as a compensation for this last particular, 
in some latitude towards the north, where the temperature is 
with a degree of steadiness which verges towards the sensibly 
cool or cold. In England these conditions are found in what 
is popularly termed the lake district; which comprises portions 
of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and part of Lancashire; where 
Windermere, Brassmere, Buttermere, and Coniston Water, 
together with Keswick and Cummon Water, are famous for 
some of these fishes. Dr. Davy informs us that he himself 
introduced them into Easedale, but with what success we have 
not heard. 
In Wales the Torgoch is most abundant in Llyn Cwyllian, 
or Cwellyn, on the west side of Snowdon ; but there are lakes 
in this neighbourhood in which this Char has never been met 
with. In Llanberris the abundance for which it rvas famous 
was once checked, in consequence of the flowing into it of 
water from a mine; so that it was supposed they rvere all 
destroyed; but they still exist there, as we know from having 
obtained them. 
In Scotland besides Loch Grannock, in Kircudbrightshire, 
they are also known in Lochs Corr and Killin, in Inverness-shire, 
and also Loch Inch; and Sir William Jardine found them in 
Sutherlandshire. There was also a Char in Loch Leven, but 
whether so at present seems uncertain. 
In Ireland all the species except the Alpine appear to be 
more widely distributed than in other parts of the United 
Kingdom. Mr. Thompson has specified the situations of these 
fish at considerable length in his natural history of his native 
country, and from him with other help I derive the following 
particulars, joined to those which have been given in our 
account of the individual species. The lakes or pieces of water 
that have been enumerated are Lough Melvyn, Esk, the 
Commeloughs and Stilloges in the mountains of Cummeragh; 
Lough Neagh, Eagish; Inchigcelagh, in the county of Cork; 
Kindun, Gartnan, Shassuck, Kindrum, Keel, in Donegal; Dan, 
