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PART THE SECOND. 



THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SALMON. 



CHAPTER I. 



ALL THE KNOWN HISTORY AND HABITS OF SALMON MINUTELY 

 WRITTEN AND DESCRIBED. 



The natural history of salmon has been fre- 

 quently written ; still, there exists, as far as my 

 reading extends, no history of the fish sufficiently 

 accurate and copious at the same time. I assert 

 this unhesitatingly, and without rendering my- 

 self liable to any charge of self-conceit. The 

 history and habits of the salmon written in detail 

 in the following pages are not mine. The writing 

 is mine, and very little more. The real author — 

 the communicator of the chief facts enumerated — is 

 Mr. Andrew Young of Invershin, manager of the 

 Duke of Sutherland's northern salmon-rivers. 

 He has communicated them to me orally and by 

 writing, and I am nothing more than the public 



