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not a salmon ; frequently don't find them in rivers 

 "where there are salmon ; see them going down 

 kelt ; they return to the same rivers to spawn as 

 salmon do, for the same purposes, at a certain 

 season of the year ; thinks it full grown when of 

 the size above-mentioned, that is, about twelve or 

 fifteen inches long; has never observed their fry, 

 thinks it must be much less than the salmon fry ; 

 may go down with the salmon fry ; thinks the gilse 

 a different fish from the salmon ; thinks there are 

 different kind of salmon in different rivers ; gilse 

 differ in shape from salmon ; never exceed nine or 

 ten pounds ; few salmon live to the age of four or 

 five years. 



George Little, Esq. again examined. — Considers 

 the sea-trout a different fish from the salmon ; 

 found only in particular rivers, where they breed ; 

 not found in all salmon rivers ; do not breed, and 

 not to be found in Ireland ; if young salmon, they 

 w r ould be found where salmon are ; a salmon gets 

 seven, eight, or nine pounds the first year ; every 

 river has a peculiar kind of fish attached to it ; 

 has been informed that the fry had been marked 

 at Lancaster, and had been killed the following 

 spring full grown salmon ; does not know of the 

 fry of gilses thus marked and caught ; admits that 

 the male gilse could impregnate the roe of the sal- 

 mon ; salmon are best and most plentiful in May, 

 June, and July ; in August they begin to fall off; 

 the nearer to spawning the worse they get ; the 



