34 THE SALMON. 



ordinary observation. That the parr is the infant young 

 of the salmon was a fact so clear, or a conclusion so 

 inevitable, before the experiments were made, that it 

 would now be hard to conceive how it could ever have 

 been in doubt, were it not that, even after the experiments 

 have furnished the most ample demonstration, there 

 are still to be found a considerable number of people 

 who, instead of having been convinced, have only been 

 enraged. A good deal, however, of the former, and 

 almost all of the remaining confusion, arises from differ- 

 ences in names and mistakes as to identity the parr 

 being known by many different names in different 

 localities, and some of these names being in some dis- 

 tricts and by some people applied to such river trouts 

 as happen, which is a frequent case, to bear marks 

 resembling one of the distinctive marks of the parr. 

 Even two hundred years ago (when such matters re- 

 ceived but scant attention), this confusion of names 

 was matter of observation and complaint. We find it 

 alluded to in a curious, though, by reason of its pedantry 

 and priggishness, rather unreadable book, by " Richard 

 Franck, Philanthropic," a Cromwellian trooper, who 

 made an angling tour through a great part of Scotland 

 about the middle of the seventeenth century, and pub- 

 lished his experiences under the title of Northern Me- 

 moirs, without obtaining almost any attention till 1821, 

 when the volume was reprinted with a preface and notes 

 by Sir Walter Scott. Speaking of " the various names 

 given in England to the brood of salmon," he says : 

 " Now, in the South, they call him samlet, but if you 

 step to the West, he is better known there by the name 



