of Geneva it is named Ferra,) Savoy, and Italy, of Norway, Sweden, and Lapland, (where SCHEFFER asserts they are caught of the weight of ten or twelve pounds,) this fish is an inhabitant. It is, continues Mr. PENNANT, gregarious, and approaches the shores during Spring and Summer in such vast shoals as to prove, in many places, to the Poor of inland Counties, as great a relief as the return of the Herring is to those who dwell upon the Coasts; and he recites an instance of an Ulles-Water fisherman who took between seven and eight thousand at one draught: it is there called Schelly, a name which the inhabitants of Cumberland give also to the Chub, from its being a scaly fish.

It has long since been observed in CAMDEN, that the Gwiniad never wanders into the Dee, nor does the Salmon ever venture into the Bala lake; and, generally speaking, this is the case; but, by accident, the first has been known to stray as far as Landrillo, six miles down the River, and a Salmon has now and then been found trespassing in the Lake.

The late Honourable DAINES BARRINGTON remarks upon this fish, “ that it is universally supposed (and even by LHWYD, in his additions to CAMDEN's Britannia) Salmon are never caught in the Lake of Bala, although they are frequently taken in the river Dee, just below where it issues from the lake, whilst the contrary is observed with regard to the Gwiniad, which is conceived to be a fish peculiar to the lake ; but, says Mr. B. I happened to see a Salmon of about fifteen pounds caught in the lake, at least two

hundred yards above the bridge through which the Dee issues; and, although I never saw the Gwiniad taken in that river, yet was I most authentically informed that several were caught, within three years, as low down as Landrillo, nearly six measured miles from the lake of Bala; and with respect to the Gwiniads being only in this lake, I can myself flatly contradict this notion, as the first parcel of fish which I happened to see in the Market of Penrith, in Cumberland, were of this sort, and were brought from Ulles-Water, about four or five miles from thence.

"One very striking mark in this fish, which cannot but be attended to by those even who are not Naturalists, is, that they have the ventral fins of a very deep blue, and the Belly at most seasons is marked with blue spots; which," concludes Mr. B. "is what I do not recollect in any other fish of this Island."

According to Mr. PENNANT, the Gwiniad is an insipid fish, and must be soon eaten, as it will not keep; and those that choose to preserve salt them: (SCHEFFER represents them as being of an eminently fine luscious taste, and known in Lapland and Sweden by the name of Sijk:) the largest Mr. P. ever heard of weighed between three and four pounds; that from which he took his description was eleven inches long, and its greatest depth three. The head is small, smooth, and of a dusky hue; the eyes very large, and the pupil of a deep blue; the nose blunt at the end; the jaws of equal length; the mouth small and toothless; the covers

of the gills silvery, powdered with black; the back is rather arched, and, as far as the lateral line, glossed with a deep blue and purple colour, but towards the line assumes a silvery cast, tinged with gold, beneath which those colours entirely prevail; the belly is a little prominent, and quite flat on the bottom: the first dorsal fin is placed almost in the middle; the second is thin, transparent, and not distant from the tail; the ventral fins in some are of a very fine blue, in others as if powdered with blue specks; the ends of the other lower fins are tinged with the same colour; the tail is very much forked; the scales are large, and adhere close to the body. Their spawning season in Llynteged is in December. They are taken in Nets, but never by any Bait, keeping on the bottom of the lake, and feeding on small shells, and the leaves of Water Gladiol, a plant peculiar to these mountain lakes.

Charr.

THE account of this fish is introduced for the same reasons that obtained in the preceding. There are but few lakes in our Island that produce the Charr, and even those in no great Abundance: it is found in vast plenty in the cold lakes on the Summits of the Lapland Alps, and is almost the only fish met with in any quantity in these Regions, where it would be wonderful how they subsisted, had not Providence supplied them with innumerable larvæ of the Gnat kind; these are food to the fish, who, in their turn, are a ready repast to the migrating.

Laplanders in their Summer voyages to the distant lakes, who dress and eat them, without the addition of any other Sauce than exercise and temperance. The Charr affects clear and pure waters, and is very rarely known to wander into running Streams, except into such whose bottom is similar to the neighbouring lake. It is found in Winander Mere, in Westmoreland; Ulles-Water in Cumberland; in Llynn Quellyn, near the foot of Snowdon; in certain lakes in Merionethshire; and, before the discovery of the Copper Mincs, in those of Llanberris; but in the last the fish have been entirely destroyed by the mineral Streams. In Scotland it is found in Loch Tay, Loch Inch, and other neighbouring lakes; and is said to go into the Spey to spawn. In Ireland the Charr is abundant in Lough Esk.

Mr. PENNANT describes the largest and most beautiful to have been sent him from Winander Mere, consisting of five Specimens; two under the name of Case Charr, (male and female ;) a third was termed a Gelt Charr, that is, a Charr which had not spawned the preceding Season, and on which account it is reckoned to be in the greatest perfection: the two others were inscribed the red charr, the silver or gilt charr, which last are in Westmoreland distinguished by the epithet Red, from the flesh assuming a higher colour when dressed: it is esteemed so very delicious amongst the Italians that they consider it as excelling every other sort of fish, and so wholesome that sick persons are allowed to eat it. On the closest examination, continues Mr. P., no specific difference in these Specimens could be discovered; of course