CHAP. III. 



DESIGN FOR A SUITE OF SALMON-PONDS. 



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ing, rearing, and maintaining in health, a very large number 

 of young fish, at a comparatively trifling cost. The artificial 

 breeding of salmon is still carried on at these ponds, and with 

 very great success, when their limited extent is taken into 

 account. They have sensibly increased the stock of fish in 

 the Tay, and also, as I will by and by relate, under the sepa- 



DESIGN FOR A SERIES OF SALMON-BREEDING PONDS. 



Source of supply at top. 

 Breeding-boxes next. 

 Parr-pond after. 

 Smolt-pond to the right. 



Adult salmon pond to the left. 



River at foot of plan. 



Ornamental walks. 



Clumps of trees, etc., according to taste. 



rate head of '* The Salmon," contributed greatly to the solution 

 of the various mysteries connected with the growth of that fish. 

 The fish, it is remarkable, suffer no deterioration of any kind 

 by being bred in the ponds, and can compare in every respect 

 with those bred in the river. 



The plan of the ponds at Stormontfield, as originally con- 



