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SALMON. Class IV. 



a re obferved to have abundance of infefts adherj 

 inc to them, efpecially above the gills : tnefe are 

 the Lenue* Salmons of Linntus, and are figns that 

 the filh are in high feafon- Thefe animals die and| 

 drop off, foon after the falmon have left the fea. 

 ' About the latter end of March the fpawn begins; 

 to exclude the young, which gradually increafe t<£ 

 the length of four or five inches, and are then term. 

 cA Smelts oxSumts: about the beginning of May. 

 the river is full of them •, it feems to be all ahvel 

 there is no having an idea of the numbers without 

 feeing them; but a feafonable flood then burn* 

 thenTall to the fea, fcare any or very few bem| 

 left in the river. 



About the middle of June the earlieft of the frj 



begin to drop, as it were, into the river agai» 



from the fea, at that time about twelve, fourteen; 



or fwteen inches, and by a gradual progrefs, in». 



creafe in number and flze till about the end of 



July, which is at Berwick termed the height of 



Gilfeums, the name given to the filh at that age; 



the end of July*, or beginning of Augufi they lef- 



fen in number, but increafe in fize, fome being fix, 



feven, eight, or nine pounds in weight-, this ap- 



Qy ict pears to be a furprifing quick growth, yet we have 



Growth. rece ived from a gentleman at Warrington, an in* 



fiance ftill more fo: a kipper falmon weighing n% 



three quarters, taken on the 7th of February, I 



ing marked with a fciffars, on the back, fin, 



and tail, and turned into the river, was 3g»'» 



taker 



