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seventy-six lines were added, and on its second visit twenty-one lines, 

 making the fish to be SJ years of age. 



The scale, Fig. 123, has one hundred rings, twenty-five of which 



are parr lines. This fish is on its first return from the sea, and is 6J 

 years of age. 



I examined other six scales, and found all to have the same 



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FIG. 124. 62-lh. King Salmon. 



number ol lines, namely, one hundred and thirty-seven. Strange to 

 say, out of ten scales, I found four of them to have been up before, 

 and this in a river where anglers seldom meet with kelts. From this 

 it is clear more kelts must go down and return than is generally 

 believed to be the case. In order to arrive at a correct idea how 

 many return, the river would require to be netted each month from 

 May to October, so that a much larger number could be examined. 



John Roberts, Esq., very kindly sent me several scales taken 



