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James Gillies again examined. — Much fry de- 

 stroyed by angling ; if the close time is not altered 

 and enforced, the rivers will be barren altoge- 

 ther ; cruives continue set a month after the close 

 time. 



George Little, Esq. — A number of salmon come 

 to the cawl, over which they cannot get; and a 

 number of poachers go to kill them there ; no other 

 obstruction but the mill-cawls. Edinburgh and 

 Glasgow are supplied with an immense number of 

 kippers killed in close time. 



Sir H. Davy. — Distinguishes the salmon into two 

 species ; the salmo salar or common salmon, and 

 the salmo eriox ; the latter has different names in 

 different districts, such as salmon peal, sea or bull- 

 trout ; but its most correct appellation is sea-trout ; 

 points out the difference ; multiply in winter 

 and require running water ; has seen salmon full of 



NOTES. 



I believe there is but one species ; that the peal, the trout, 

 and the salmon are one species of fish. If there is any 

 difference I never could discover it, and I have examined 

 and compared a great many, side by side, in every part of 

 the body, general shape, head, tail, fin, ray, brachia, la- 

 teral line, spot, and also in the flesh itself; there is not a 

 fiftieth part of the difference that there is between veal 

 and ox beef. 



If roe be visible in salmon in March, and such roe is 

 not shed until the autumn months, it must lie in the parent 



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