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^Yater near tliem for half a mile on each side. 

 This little river is no exception this season, — 

 there are two streams, equally as small, 

 running through Mr. O'Eork's and Mr. Jack- 

 son's lands, at the top of Grange river, where 

 a great many salmon have spawned this 

 season, and w^here we never observed any- 



thing but trout before 



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I myself have never had the opportunity 

 of examining a salmon's nest, but I have, to 

 use the schoolboy's expression, "robbed" 

 many a trout's nest. One knows the nest by 

 observing in the bed of tlie river a hillock, or 

 mound of gravel, about a wheelbarrow full, 

 and a hollow sort of ditch in front of it, as 

 though some one had been scraping it up 

 w^ith his heel. About the bef>;innino; of this 



