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(ill having ditiereiit lumies in different loi^alities, besides 

 whicli, the same name is often applied to different species ; 

 and the young and the adult of one species are some- 

 times classed as two species, sometimes vice versa. The 

 facts, in short, arc in darkness and confusion, and their 

 confusion is twice confounded by an unsettled nomen- 

 clature. This part of the subject (cannot be regarded as 

 quite unimportant ; for instance, the take of the Salmo 

 eriox on the Tweed is in some years greater than that 

 of salmon and grilse together. There is, however, this 

 consolation, that the want of knowledo'e regarding; the 

 various kinds of "sea- trout" is to be regretted chiefly 

 as a deficiency in natural history — in matters of legis- 

 lation, preservation, and increase, whatever is good for 

 the salmon proper will l)e found, generally speaking, 

 aljout equally good for his poor relations and social 

 inferiors. 



