292 LIST OF CELEBRATED SALMON. 



have in my museum, and I am happy to say the Largest 

 is a British fish : — 



Weiglit. Length, 



1. TaySahiion ... 70 4ft. 5in. 



2. Ehine do. ... G9 4ft. Sin. 



8. Shannon do. ... 54 — 



^•^%. , '^"•l... 58 4ft. 



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5. Rhine do. ... 51-^- 4ft. Sin. 



6. Tay do. ... 51 4ft. Sin. 



7. Wye do. ... 50 4ft. 2in. 



8. Tay do. ... 49f 4ft. 



9. Shannon do. ... 46 4ft. Bin. 



10. Wye do. ... 44^ 3ft. lO^in. 



^^•^^l. , ^^"-l... 42 3ft. Sin. 



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The King of the collection is certainly the 701bs. 

 salmon from the Tay ; it has been marvellously painted 

 to life by my friend H. L. Eolfe, Esq., of Nicholas Lane, 

 City, and the reader has only to examine it to see the 

 high pitch of art to which Mr. Eolfe has attained in 

 painting fish, and he, I think, well deserves the title 

 he has so justly earned, " The Landseer among 

 Fishes." 



In Land and Wafer, June 25, 1S70, I wrote the fol- 

 lowing account of this big fish, the 



MONSTER SALMON FROM THE TAY. 



Mr. Charles, of Arabella Eow, has kindly sent me 

 word (June, 1870), that he had purchased at Billingsgate 

 a very large salmon, and that he wished me to examine 

 it. I have seen many big salmon, but never saw such 

 a fine ''boast" — as the Scotch fishermen call a salmon 



