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INDEX. 



Kirkcudbright, salmon-fishing in De- 

 foe's days, 92. 



Knife, sahnon obtained for one in 

 Boothia, 5. 



Labour of salmon-fishing to a great 



extent labour lost, 11. 

 Labrador, Salmon in, 89. 

 Lamb, " cruelty" practised before 



getting a leg of lamb, 19. 

 Legislation on subject, 1 ; preventives 



and correctives of, G. 

 on salmon, 134-179; future, 



180-213. 



(Modern) proceeds on same 



principles as ancient, 140 

 Leister or spear prohibited by Act of 



Parliament, 160 ; its antiquity, 161 ; 



prohibited by Canadian Legislature, 



163. 

 Leith, Water of, and sewage, 209, 210. 

 Lengthening the fishing season, Dis- 

 astrous effect of, 112. 

 Lights, Fishing with, prohibited, 172. 

 Liver (boiled). Young salmon fed on, 



49. 

 Loch (James), Bill of, in 1835, 146. 

 Locksper, local name of young salmon, 



85. 

 London, Supply sent to, from Irish 



fisheries, 97. 

 London Hotel^ Highland laird and 



his gilly at, 96. 

 Londoners have resolved Thames is 



not to be a sewer, 268. 

 Longfield, " The Fishery Laws of Ire- 

 laud," 134. 

 Lord Advocate's Bill of 1861, 166; 



withdrawn, 168. 



Bill of 1862, 168, 169. 



Lower or estuary proprietors, 148 ; 



reply of, to upper proprietors, 148. 

 chiefly want gain, 152. 



Lower or estuary proprietors on 

 Tweed resist abolition of stell and 

 cairn nets, 159. 



Macedonians in ancient times were 

 anglers, 2. 



Mackenzie (Mr.) of Dundonell, his 

 heresy on grilse never becoming 

 salmon, 58-60; answer to, 61-84. 



Magna Charta, Salmon fisheries re- 

 cognised and regulated in, 7. 



Two clauses in, about salmon, 



135. 



Male parrs, their premature sexual 



maturity, 41-48. 

 Mansfield (Earl of) examines fish at 



Stormontfield, 51. 

 Marked fish, On capture of, 84. 

 Marking by cuts not to be depended 



on, 54. 

 Maturity (premature sexual) of male 



parr, 41-43. 

 Mediterranean, no salmon in rivers 



falling into, 2. 

 Meshes of nets restricted in size by 



Tweed Bills, 163. 



minimum size of, in England, 



174. 



Migratory dress, when assumed by 

 parr, 41-53. 



Monks formerly improved breeds and 

 increased produce, 214. 



Monteith de Salmonnet, a Scotch- 

 man, 91. 



Moray Firth, Fixed engines in, 129, 

 130. 



fisheries on, made worthless, 201 . 



Mottled trout not a parr, 39. 

 Mysteries in natural history, study 

 involves, 1. 



Name of salmon derived from its leap- 

 ing powers, 8. 



