_Phys._ The char[1] is a most beautiful and excellent fish, and is, of course, a fish of prey. Is he not an object of sport to the angler?--_Hal. _ They generally haunt deep, cool lakes, and are seldom found at the surface till late in the autumn. When they are at the surface they will, however, take either fly or minnow. I have known some caught in both these ways; and have myself taken a char, even in summer, in one of those beautiful, small, deep lakes in the Upper Tyrol, near Nazereit; but it was where a cool stream entered from the mountain; and the fish did not rise, but swallowed the artificial fly under water. I have fished for them in many lakes, without success, both in England and Scotland, and also amongst the Alps; and I am told the only sure way of taking them is by sinking a line with a bullet, and a hook having a live minnow attached to it, in the deep water which they usually haunt; and in this way, likewise, I have no doubt the _umbla_, or _ombre chevalier_, might be taken. [1] _Sabling_ of the Germans. _Naturalization of Fish._ _Hal._ At Lintz, on the Danube, I could have given you a fish dinner of a different description, which you might have liked as a variety. The four kinds of perch, the _spiegil carpfen_, and the _siluris glanis_; all good fish, and which I am sorry we have not in England, where I doubt not they might be easily naturalized, and where they would form an admirable addition to the table in inland counties. Since England has become Protestant, the cultivation of fresh water fish has been much neglected. The _burbot_, or _lotte_, which already exists in some of the streams tributary to the Trent, and which is a most admirable fish, might be diffused without much difficulty; and nothing could be more easy than to naturalize the _spiegil carpfen_ and _siluris_; and I see no reason why the _perca lucio perca_ and _zingil_ should not succeed in some of our clear lakes and ponds, which abound in coarse fish. The new Zoological Society, I hope, will attempt something of this kind; and it will be a better object than introducing birds and beasts of prey--though I have no objection to any sources of rational amusement or philosophical curiosity. _Conveying Fish._