WON'nKRFn. INSTINCT IN I'ISII. ;}G7 



unfitted for the purposes of the fish, juul tlmt it contains no 

 shoals suiti'd tor spawning; j;rounds ; for, otherwise, we should 

 expect that every iudiviilual tish would visit it at least once, in 

 «)rder to <»et a taste of its ([uality, and then, fiudin;; it unsuit- 

 ahle, desert it ; whereas it is not on record that any lish has 

 ever heen taken of this species within its eniljouchiire. 



It may he that this wonderful power is an esj)ic'ial ^itt oi" 

 Providence, preventing tlie tish from wastin<^ too nuich tinu' in 

 seekini; ovit a haunt, and so losing the season for the propaga- 

 tion of its species, hy conducting it, tndy as the needle to the 

 nuignetic pole, to the stream in which it was hrcd. 



He this, however, as it may, certain it is that in all the rivers 

 which flow eastwardly from the provinces into the Northern 

 Atlantic, with every flood-tide a horde of these beautiful fishes 

 run up until they strike the junction of the salt and fresh 

 water, usually at the foot (»f a fall or ra[)id, and there remain 

 disporting themselvi-s in the bright eddies, and throwing them- 

 selves quite out of their native element, in pursuit of their scaly 

 prey. 



In these places they will take very greedily any of the Scottisli 

 or Irish gaudy lake flies, leaping out of the water to take and seize 

 them, and rising so voraciously aiul rapidly, thai it is found im- 

 possible to fish with above one, or at the most, two flies ; as it 

 is not at all an unusual thing, if fishing with three, to hook at 

 the same moment three several fishes. 



In the Obscnche, several yeani since, Mr. Pcrley, who visited 

 those waters in his official capacity, accompanied by Captain 

 Egcrton, of II. M. 1.1(1 Light Infantry, killed thni- hnnilrcd ol 

 these fine fish at the junction of the fresh and salt water, at the 



