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pounds in Avoiglit ; and in sonic of the smaller bays the 

 slioal couhl lie traced several times circling it, and appa- 

 rently iecdino-. In these bays they are occasionally taken 

 with a common hang-net stretched across ; and ulicn angled 

 iiM- in the estuaries, with the ordinary flies Avhich are used 

 in the rivers of the South for Grilse, rose and took so 

 eagerly, that thirty-four were the produce of one rod, en- 

 gaged for about an hour and a half. They enter every 

 river and rivulet in inuncuse numbers, and Avhen fishing 

 for tlie Salmon are annoying from their quantity. The 

 food of those taken with the rod in the estuaries appeared 

 very indiscriminate ; occasionally the remains of some small 

 fisli, Avliich were too miu'h digested to be distinguished ; 

 sometimes flies, beetles, or other insects, which the wind 

 or title had carried out ; but the most general fooil seemed 

 to be tlie 'J\ilitris locusta^ or common sand-hopper, with 

 which some of their stomachs were completely crammed. 

 It is scarcely possible to arrive with any certainty at the 

 niunbers of this fish. Two hundred are frequently taken 

 at a single draught of a sweep-net, and three hundred 

 have occasionally been counted." They are much more 

 numerous in the Don, the Spey, and the Tay, than in the 

 Tweed. 



Great quantities of this Salmon-Trout are sent to the 

 liondou market ; those from Perth, Dundee, ^lontrose, 

 and Aberdeen appear, from their comparative depth of 

 bodv, to be better fed, are higher in colour, and considered 

 to be finer in flavour than from some other localities. 

 The Fordwieh Trout of Isaac Walton is the Salmon-Trout ; 

 and its character for ailordiug '• rare good meat." besides 

 the circumstauce of its being really an excellent fish, second 

 only to the Salmon, was greatly enhanced, no doubt, by 

 the opportunity of eating it very fresh. Fordwich is about 



