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 by the nutriment which they feed on. They are caught in bakets, in which is put a tablecloth or heet, and inking the baket with tones, vat quantities are taken at a time. They are fried in a batter made of flour and milk, or tewed with herbs and pice. They are excellent food cooked either way.

Almot in the centre of the iland, on the top of a very high mountain, urrounded by others above it, is a large natural pond, or rather lake of freh water, which is alo well tocked with fine fih, and it is aid, is in ome places unfathomable. It covers a pace of ome acres, preads into three ditinct branches, and has a very wonderful appearance in point of ituation: it is about ix miles ditant from the town of Roeau, and great part of the road to it is a teep acent. On firt beholding this lake, a peron becomes, as it were, rivetted for a time to the