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velln is the young of the salmon, but circumstances 

 also of the most curious nature relative to that little 

 fish are asserted, which it would not be suitable to 

 advert to more particularly here, but which are 

 stated at length in the Transactions of the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh, vol. 14 The destruction of 

 gravelin in the interior of the country is carried on 

 I may say without any restraint ; in the great mills 

 near large towns, improper practices are not often 

 permitted, but in the petty mills in remote districts 

 the destruction of gravelin is enormous. It has oc- 

 curred to me to prosecute under the following cir- 

 cumstances : — In a petty mill, a trap was found, con- 

 structed at the waste gate of the mill, and capable of 

 taking a barrel of gravelins in a single night; I came 

 upon tlie engine myself, and on the trial at the ensu- 

 ing Petty Sessions, the first witness was a contuma- 

 cious miller, who for some cause had been discharged 

 from the mill, where, with five others, he had been 

 dieted, (a custom in country mills.) He stated on 

 his oath, that a large boiler of gravelins was put down 

 each day, and that he was discharged from his em- 

 ployment because he complained of getting nothing 

 but fish ; or, in the miller's own words — '' it was gra- 

 velins for dinner, and gravelins for supper, and I 

 could stand it no longer." 



With such occurrences as these, I think it must 

 be admitted that the Act of Parliament should have 

 given the proper name of the fish, and not have used 

 a term, upon which no prosecution can be safely 

 founded. 



