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brackishiu». llr i>< >;ih1 to hivrd or cast liis spawn, in most 

 rivers, in the month of Au-^ust ; some say that then th(\ dii; a 

 liolc or ;:ravr in a siifc phicc in the {jjnivrl, and tlicrt' jjhicc their 

 e^^s or spawn, nl'ter the milter has done his natural olVire, and 

 then hide it most ennnint,'l\", and rover it over \\ith i,'ra\el and 

 stones ; and then' leavi> it to their Creator's protection, who, hv 

 n gentle heat \\hieh he inlnses in that cold element, makes it 

 brood and bc^et life in the spawn, and to become Samlets earlv 

 in the next sprinj; lollowinj;." 



'I'his pa>saue I have tpiotcd l)ecause in several respects it 

 approaclies very nearly the trnth, as it has been proved l)v the 

 result of a series of well-conducted experiments, to which I shall 

 again allude. 



The true Salmon is ean^dit in the i-stnaries of our large 

 northern and north-eastern rivers, on his way n[) to deposit his 

 spawn in the la»t months of spring and the early part of the 

 summer. It has bi'cn observed in llni(»[)e, that those ri\i'rs 

 which flow from large lakes afford tiie earliest Salmon, the 

 waters ha\ing l)een purified by deposition in the lakes, while 

 those which are swollen by melting snows are later in season. 



It i.s also observed tliat the northern rivers are the earliest ; 

 and it is stated by Arteoli, that in Sweden, Salmon spawn in the 

 middle of the summer. The causes inllueneing these facts are 

 not yet decided, nor are they easy of solution, says Sir \N'illiam 

 Jardinc, cnpccially where the time varies much in the neigh- 

 bouring nvers of the sanu" district. 



I am not aware that any ditVerenee of this kind has binn 

 remarked in thi.s country ; and the great lack of residents on 

 the remote Salmon rivers who will trouble themselves to observe 



