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THE SEA-TROUT. 
pounds. It differs from the falmon, in having the taii 
terminating in aftraight line. The head is thick, fmooth, 
and dulky ; the back is of the fame colour, but grows 
fainter towards the (ides, which are marked with large 
irregular fpots of black. The flelh, when boiled, is paler 
(ban that of the falmon, but grateful to the talle *. 
Another fpecies, or perhaps variety, of the trout, is 
the famlet, the fmalleft of the kind, and by fome ac- 
counted the fry of the falmon at a particular llage of 
their growth : but as this fpecies remains in the rivers 
after the departure of the young falmon, and is of a much 
fmaller lize than they are after their return, the inference 
is obvious, that it mult belong to a different tribe. It 
nearly refembles the river-trout ; but may be diftiti- 
guilhed by a broader lhape ; by its fuperior whitenefs, 
and by the fliape of its tail, which is more forked ; and, 
laftly, by the fmallnefs of its lize, which is much inferior 
to that of the trout f . 
The River-Trout J, 
The common trout is a fifli univerfally known in this 
ifland, for the delicacy of its flelh, for the fport it affords 
to the angler, and for the fuperior beauty of its colours. 
The common fpecies it is unneceffary to defcribe ; but 
there are fome varieties not unworthy of notice. The 
colours of the trout vary greatly in different waters : I' 1 
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* Willough. -f Brit. Zoology, Gen. 33. 
$ Salmo Faria, Lin. Syft. A Trput, Will. 
