3^^ THE BEE, OR Feb. 28, 



fame kinds of fifii, but with this diiTerence, that the herlings^ 

 fea trout and falrnon. are much more plentiful in It than ia 

 the Clucicn. One peculiarity deierves particular notice : 

 Though the two rivers join at the fouth-eaft corner 

 of tlie parifli, each has its own dillinct: fpecies of 

 falmon. The Cluden falrnon are confiderably thick- 

 er ond fliorter in their body, and greatly Ihortcr in their 

 head, than thofe of the Nith. The burn trouts abound in 

 the fpring and fummer ; the herlings and fea trout in fuly 

 iuid Auguft ; and the falrnon from the beginning of March 

 to the beginnig of Oftober. The falrnon is in the greateil 

 perfedlion in June and July. In the fpring it fells for 

 about one fliiiiing a pound of fixteen ounces, and gradually 

 <lecreufes in price as the feafon advances, to 21: d. apound. it 

 is all fold in the town of Dumfries, and to the families in 

 the adjacent country. Dumfries being fo near, and 

 many of the fifhermcn living in the town, the price in 

 that market, and on the fpot where it is cauglit in this pn- 

 lifh, it always the fame. The prices of the other 

 kinds of fifli, are always a little lower than that of fal- 

 rnon ; and they rife and fall with it. About ten years 

 ngo, the price of fiih in this country was fcarctly half of 

 what it is at prefent. The increafed price is perhaps ow- 

 jng, in part, to the increafed coniumption, and luxury of the 

 inhabitants, but principally to the great demand for this filh, 

 to iupply the rich and populous manufacturing towns in 

 i-iancalhirc •, for, wichin thefe lall ten years, verv conlidera- 

 ble quantities of frePa ialmon have been fent, by land car- 

 riage, into that country, from the Solway Frith, and the 

 mouths of all the rivers that run into it. 



S'iiL — The foil of this parifli is of four different kinds, viz. 

 :i, coniiderable tract of land, about a fourth part of the parifii, 

 in the ea't, along the river Nith, and, on the fouth, for about 

 :e.'':^n miles up the river Cluden, i/S a deep, rich, light loam, 

 and free from flones : 2(i, Another fourth part, contiguous 

 to the former, is a light, dry, fertile foil, lying on a bed of 

 iandy gravel, producing heavy crops of corn and grafs in a 

 fhowery ieafon ; but it is greatly parched up in dry feafons : 



noiit, but confKlerablj' paler. They abound in all the rivers in this part 

 ct the Cfuntry, and have the uanic of her ling in all the adjoinincr j,a , 

 rifnc?. 



