86 GUIDE TO ICELAND. on the east coast there may he one or two streams in which salmon are caught—the Lagarfljot would he a likely one, hut it is doubt- ful, for in three voyages to SeifSisfjor'&r, one to Eskifjorir and Vopnafjdr>6r, the three chief trading posts in the east, the author never saw any salmon brought to the steamers for sale, pretty con- clusive evidence, he thinks, that not many are caught in the rivers in this part of the island. Tkout Streams.—The Sog, draining pingvallavatn; the Bruara, tributary to the southern Hv'itd (Route 1); the stream draining the Skorradalsvatn, in the west (Route 4); the pvera, tributary to the western Hv’itd ; the Haukadalsd, falling into the Hvammsfjdi^r (Routes 3 and 4); the Svarta, tributary to the Heradsvotn falling into the Skagafjor^r (Route 3) ; the Svarta, tributary to the Blanda (Route 3); the Ilorga, and the lower part of the Fnjoskd, respectively west and east of the Eyjafjor&r (Route 3); and the Svarta from Svartdrvatn in the interior. There are doubtless many others, for it is said that every stream having its source in a lake, or fed by feeders from one, abounds in trout or char, unless the water is impregnated with mineral matters from thermal springs or noxious volcanic deposits. Two kinds of trout are caught, pink-fleshed and white, besides the sea-trout. The latter caught by the author have run very small, six ounces to half a lb. being the largest, but the river and lake trout run large, 2 lbs. to 4 lbs. being common, while one up to 7 lbs. is not a rarity. Char are numerous and run large in the lakes, up to 8 lbs., but seldom, if ever, take artificial lures. In the rivers, on the contrary, char seldom exceed 2 lbs. in weight, and greedily take artificial flies. In ‘ The Home of the Eddas,’ a recently pub- lished work on Iceland, we find (p. 312) red char described as ‘ sea-trout, or salmon-trout ’!! and are informed that they ‘ swarm in every lake, pool, and stream, except those fed directly by glacier water.’ To this piece of original information, it would have been well if the author, who poses as a very learned and critical in- dividual, had described how the ‘ red char (sea-trout, or salmon- trout) ’ ascend the river falls to reach the lakes lying at a con- siderable altitude, where the red char are found in great numbers.

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