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Among the great variety of fish, which inhabit the extensive
waters of this lake, the char is the most remarkable.
It is near twice the size of a herring. It's back is of an
olive-green: it's belly of a light vermillion; softening in
some parts into white; and changing to a deep red, at the
insertion of the fins.
A parcel of char, just caught and thrown together into the
luggage-pool of a boat, makes a pleasant harmony of
colouring. The green-olive tint prevails; to which a spirit
is here and there given by a light blush of vermillion; and
by a strong touch of red, if a fin happen to appear. These
pleasing colours are assisted by the bright silvery lights,
which play over the whole; for nothing reflects light more
beautifully than the scales of fish.
Char are caught only in the winter-season, when twenty dozen
in a day, are sometimes taken by a single boat. In summer
they retire to rocky caves below, some of which are said to
be unfathomable: nor do they breed
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