10 SALMONID/E. 



Lovat, who are lords of the manor, used to show their guests, 

 was a voluntarily cooked Salmon at the falls of Kilmorac. 

 For this purpose a kettle was placed upon the flat rock on 

 the south side of the fall, close by the edge of the water, and 

 kept full and boiling. There is a considerable extent of 

 the rock where tents were erected, and the whole was under 

 a canopy of overshadowing trees. There the company are 

 said to have waited until a Salmon fell into the kettle and 

 was boiled in their presence. We have seen as many as 

 eighty taken in a pool lower down the river at one haul of 

 the seine, and one of the number weighed more than sixty 

 pounds." 



At the meeting of the British Association, held at Glas- 

 gow in September 1840, Mr. Smith, of Deanston in the 

 Carse of Stirling, exhibited a model, which is thus noticed in 

 the Report of the Proceedings of the Natural History Sec- 

 tion in the Literary Gazette. " Mr. Smith gave an interest- 

 ing account of a stair which he had invented, whereby 

 Salmon might be enabled to ascend streams, notwithstanding 

 the existence of natural or artificial obstructions, and so con- 

 structed as not to diminish the power of the water, or lessen 

 the supply to mills ; it being understood that the disputes 

 between the owners of mills and of salmon-fisheries had 

 hitherto led to much disagreement and inconveniency. He 

 illustrated his observations by the model of an experimental 

 erection which he had constructed on the Teith, near Doune, 

 the result of which had been so successful, that numerous 

 applications had been made from various quarters for erections 

 of the same kind. Mr. Smith mentioned that, in connexion 

 with this invention, he had in contemplation the construction 

 of an apparatus, or index, whereby the exact number of fish 

 that passed up the stream by the stair might be accurately 

 ascertained, together with the time of their so passing up, 

 and the size and thickness of the fish. It is difficult to give 



