SECT.X
River and
lake-fifh.
262 * N A T iU JR. A L H If S T O R Y
county, as they were before divided into rivers,, Jakes, and';%§, and
with as’ much ptder apthefe depute»?©* wilhad^it.
In oar rivers, befides eels ,and minies, and other lefs confidera-
ble, we haybthe flipted, a fmall kind pf trout, but in ponds growing
to about twelve or fqurteen incheslong, and by fome reckoned«
in a manner peculiar to this and its ^ igh b ou i% county,: ^he.tieih
is white and lefs fir» than that of the trout: it is cpitoipn m all
brooks which are not infe^ed with the mundic-waters of pur names,
waters fatal to all fifli fooner or later, i but much fbonertojhcte
which delkht in clear running water as the m fè Ê & M Ê M U h
may be feen in Willughby’s Tab. N. 4, Fig. 2, but indeed not
to advantage. Y . , ,
In our /Jprnifh rivers we have not the jack, perch, carp, cray-
fiflx, or others with which Providence hath flocked the rivers in;
the’ more inland parts of Britain,^ it were to make angnds for
their being fo diftant from the much greater variety of fea-fiih; but
pf the trout kind we have feveral forts, and in thpir feafon to great
plenty. In the laft age there was a, remarkably gopd ofie ip the
nver Conar, which divides the pariih o f Camborn from Gwinear and
Gwythien; but the many mines which have been p f Jatp y ew
wrought in the neighbourhood, havedeftroyed this jfifh- In the
rivers Alan and Laine, near Pendayy, they take a grey trouj in tb e
fimimpr time, the flefli of which is rpd aud ^ ifi^ ? -
Fawy, near Loftwythyel, is taken the black trout in the month of
| May, and till the latter end of June, fometimës three fpet ; | g g }
in July the falmon-pele comes up the fame riverj but is morexom-
monly caught at the mouths of rivers, and in the fea-waters, than
in the rivers themfelves; and about the latter end of Auguft fuc-
ceeds a trout, called, frbm the feme of its appearing, thë Bartholomew
Trout, not fo large as the black trout, being aboitoeighteen
inches, rarely more ; it is deeper in the belly, cuts ref, and_ is
efteemed by feme before the black trout, and both beforp the falmon.
The falmon is properly a fea-fifli, arid comes only occafiónally
into the river, as to a place p f more fecurity from ftqrm M eneinyj
to caft its. fpawn, on which it is fo intent, that it will go up into
large rivers four or five hundred milesf , then returns to the fea as
its proper element, but muft be placed here» becjaufe the rivers
generally afford us this fifh. It is caught in the river Fawy at two
Wears, one belonging to Lanhidrpck, the other to Glyn, from the
the latter end of the fpring to the end pf autumn* The falmon is
taken alfo in the feafon in great plenty at Lord Edgcumbe’s Wear
4 Trutta fluviatflis minor. c Carcw, page j6. f Ray’s Creation, page 130.
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