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single gut, without a landing-net, that weighed twenty-one 

 pounds four ounces. 



Sir H. Davy used occasionally to visit the Tweed for the 

 sake of angling for Salmon. This river is famed for afford- 

 ing amusement to the Salmon-fisher, more especially from 

 the middle of March to the beginning of May. " We have 

 heard," says Mr. Stoddart, in his Art of Angling as prac- 

 tised in Scotland, " that on one occasion Sir H. Davy hap- 

 pened by good fortune to hit upon an immense fish, weigh- 

 ing about forty-two pounds, immediately above Yair-bridge, 

 and captured him after a severe struggle. Tin's feat he 

 makes no mention of in his Salmonia, although certainly wor- 

 thy of some notice." 



Mr. Lascelles, in his Letters on Sporting, Part I. Angling, 

 says at page 21, " The largest Salmon I ever knew taken 

 with a fly was in Scotland : it weighed fifty-four pounds and 

 a half." 



Sir Hvde Parker with a rod and line killed a Salmon in 



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Sweden that weighed sixty pounds : and the Earl of Home, 

 the uncle of the present Earl, killed a Salmon in the Tweed 

 with a rod which weighed sixty-nine pounds and three 

 quarters. 



It may be stated generally, that Salmon pass the summer 

 in the sea, or near the mouth of the estuary : in autumn they 

 push up rivers, diverging to the tributary streams ; in winter 

 they inhabit the pure fresh water, and in spring descend 

 again to the sea. The question has frequently arisen, Could 

 Salmon be preserved permanently in fresh water ? and from 

 the facts already adduced, it appears that they might, but not 

 without some diminution in size or quality, or both. 



Mr. Lloyd, in his Field Sports of the North of Europe, 

 vol. i. p. 301, says, " N,^ar Katrineberg there is a valuable 

 fishery for Salmon, ten or twelve thousand of these fish being 

 taken annually. These Salmon are bred in a lake, and, in 



