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Ic may here be proper to contradict the vulvar 

 error of their taking their tail in their mouth when 

 they attempt to leap - 5 fuch as we faw, fprung up 

 quite ftraight, and with a drong tremulous motion. 



Other particulars relating to the natural hidory 

 of this fifh, we fhall relate in our accounts of the 

 fifheries, either from our own obfervations, or from 

 fuch as have been communicated to us from dif- 

 nt places : the fulled we have been favoured 

 with, is from the late Mr. Potts, of Berwick, to 

 whom the public is indebted for the following very 

 curious hidory of the falmon fifhery on the Tweed. 



At the latter end of the year, or in the month of Spawning* 

 November, the falmon begin to prefs up the rivers 

 as far as they can reach, in order to fpawn ; when 

 *hat time approaches they fearch for a place fin 

 for the purpofe: the male and female unite in form- 

 ing a proper receptacle for it in the fand or gravel, 

 about the depth of eighteen inches ; in this the fe- 

 male depofits her fpawn, the male his milt, which 

 they cover carefully, as it is faid, with their tails, 

 for after fpawning they are obferved to have no fkin 

 on that part. 



The fpawn lies buried till fpring, if not dif- 

 turbed by violent floods •, but the falmon haden 

 to lea as foon as they are able, to purify andcleanfe 

 themfelves, a:id to recover their ftrerigth •, for af- 

 ter fpawning they become very poor and lean, anj 

 then are called Kipper. 



When the falmon firft enter the frelh water, they 



are * 



