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mid eighty seven pounds, two sliillings and 

 Jive pence: it has now, 1862, reached what 

 it was in 1828. We are aware that other 

 reasons are giyen for the rise in the rental, 

 such as the extra price of the fish in the 

 London market, but we should like to know 

 how it happens that all the other rivers in 

 Scotland (with the exception, perhaps, of the 

 Sutherland rivers) which have the same 

 market for their fish, have, since 1852, had 

 a lower rental, instead of an increased 

 one. 



" To take the money value of salmon fish- 

 eries in the aggregate, and to show what an 

 important question is before us, I now give 

 the following facts, which I have on the best 

 authority : — 



