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Fishes. 
THE TEOUT. (Salmo-fario.) 
This fish, in figure, resembles the salmon ; it has a short 
roundish head, and a blunt snout. Trouts are fresh- 
water fish, and they breed and live constantly in rivers 
and small pellucid streams which sparkle over clean 
pebbles and beds of sand. 
They feed on river flies and other water insects, and 
are so fond of them, and so blindly voracious, that an- 
glers deceive them with artificial flies made of feathers, 
wool, and other materials, which resemble very closely 
the natural ones. In Lough Neagh, in Ireland, Trouts 
have been caught weighing thirty pounds ; and we are 
told, that in the Lake of Geneva, and in the northern 
lakes of England, they are found of a still larger size. 
It holds the first place among the river fish, and its flesh 
is very delicious, but difficult of digestion when old, or 
kept too long. They spawn in the month of December, 
and deposit their eggs in the gravel at the bottom of 
rivers, dykes, and ponds. Unlike most other fish, the 
