GUINTAD. 
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like it also in situations where it exists, it is sometimes met 
with in large numbers. This is particularly the case in Wales, 
and also in Cumberland; but they belong to lakes rather 
than rivers, and as they are at times found assembled in 
schools, and thus collected, come near the shore in spring 
and summer, they provide a welcome feast for the people of 
the neighbourhood; for although not valued as a delicacy for 
the epicure, they are relished by those whose sauce is a good 
appetite. Pennant reports, on the authority of a friend, that 
between seven and eight thousand have been taken with a 
net at a single draught. He adds that the flesh is insipid, 
and soon spoils, but that it is usual to preserve them with 
salt, and also that they die very soon after being taken. 
These fish spawn in the winter, but no particular account 
has been given of the proceeding, and the fish itself has 
been little noticed by anglers; so that the patriarch of the 
art, who probably never saw an example, is content to copy 
what he says of it from Cambden, who mentions it only as 
a little-known rarity. He says, “The River Dee, which 
runs by Chester, springs in Merionethshire, and as it runs 
towards Chester it runs through Pemble Mere, which is a 
large water; and it is observed that though the River Dee 
abounds with Salmon, and Pemble Mere with Guiniad, yet 
there is never any Salmon caught in the mere, nor a Guiniad 
in the river.” It is also said to be taken in Coningston 
Mere, in Lancashire; but of all its known resorts, the above- 
named Welsh lake, which is also termed Bala, Llyn Tegid, 
and Pimbee Mere possesses it in the greatest abundance; and 
I feel indebted to the kindness of Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., 
for the opportunity of procuring specimens from which our 
figure and description were taken. It has been reported as 
having been found in Ireland, where, however, it is not 
mentioned by Mr. Thompson, of Belfast; and it is to be 
doubted whether the so-called Fresh-water Herring, or Pollan, 
has not been mistaken for it. 
The example described was twelve inches in length, and 
wo inches and three fourths deep in front of the dorsal fin, 
from which part it first slopes gradually, and then more 
rapidly to the snout, which overhangs the mouth; the slope 
from the snout to the mouth square; gape small; lower jaw 
