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entire height of the two falls is about seventy feet. The 

 highest, which is on the Owenmore, near the village of 

 Collooney, has but one fall ; but this one is higher than 

 either of the falls which comprise the lower one and the 

 Upper Ballisodare Fall, and is entirely impracticable. 



" The ladder applied to the Upper Ballisodare Fall was 

 at first brought out into the lower water too far down the 

 stream from the fall, so that the fish in running up missed 

 it. It was therefore found necessary to turn it, so as to 

 bring the embouchure of the ladder close to the foot of the 

 falls. A few pairs of fish had always been in the habit of 

 entering the river and running up to the lower falls, and 

 the plan adopted to stock the river was that of catching 

 the fish and placing them in the river above the falls, so 

 that they might spawn in the river. After sundry failures, 

 the ladders being completed, and several fish being put up 

 above the falls, and some fecundated ova deposited in the 

 river, a large quantity of salmon-fry was observed to be in 

 the river. These, at the usual time, became smolts and 

 disappeared. This was about April, 1857. On June 26th 

 the first grilse was observed at the fall ; by July they were 

 plentiful, and so continued till the end of the season. The 

 river was not fished in 1857. 



" I had much more and interesting particulars from Mr. 

 Cooper in reference to this fishery, but cannot find space 

 for it here. The account was fully given in " The Field" in 

 December, 1858, and from that paper I extract the follow- 

 ing table, showing how completely the experiment sue- 



