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its 'way for five miles westward, and falls into 

 the Clare river, at Miltown. It is divided 

 into two small branches at the top ; each of 

 these rivulets is about one and a half mile 

 long, and several hundreds of salmon have 

 spawned in each of the rivulets this season. 

 What surprised and interested me most was 

 to see salmon of 5lb. to 71b. weight sticking 

 so tenaciously in a small stream, and the 

 water so low" and so far in the season. I 

 measured the brook in many places with my 

 w^alking- stick, wdiich is about three feet long, 

 and the average width does not reach the 

 length of my stick. The fish were swimming 

 about in places only two feet w^ide and one 

 foot deep. They would not leave the place, 

 but swam up and down a dozen yards, and 

 returned to the beds again — no deeper 



