®5 S the RIVER-TROUT. 
is a well known inhabitant of the greateft part of thofe 
pure and rapid ftreams which defeend from the moun- 
tains in the Highlands of Scotland, where we have wit- 
nefled above twelve dozen taken with a Angle rod and 
line in a few hours. 
It he Chart- 
‘foils fpecies is very properly denominated the Alpine 
charr by Linnzus , for its conftant refidence is in the 
lakes of the high and mountainous parts of Europe. A 
few are found in fome of the lakes in Wales, and in 
loch Inch in Scotland ; from which lad it is f.iid to mi- 
giate into the Spey to fpawn : Seldom, however, does 
this fpecies venture into any running ftream; its principal 
refort is in the cold lakes of the Lapland Alps, where it 
is fed by the innumerable larvae of gnats that infefl thofe 
dieary regions. When the Laplanders migrate to the 
diftant lakes during fiunmer, they find a ready and luxu- 
rions repaid, in thefe fillies ; which to them are extremely 
palatablc without any fauce: accnfiomed to temperance, 
and exercife, thefe hardy natives are independent of the 
inventions of epicurifmf . 
The largeft and mod; beautiful charts are found in the 
lake of Wmander-Mer, in Wejmoreland, where there are 
three 
* Salmo Alpinus, Lin. Syft. Umbla minor, Gitoiri 
t Britifh Zoology. 
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