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(December and January), any river may be 

 made productive in which the weirs are made 

 passable by ladders, and in which all natu- 

 ral and insurmountable obstructions, such as 

 rocks, cascades, and falls, are made accessible, 

 and such waters we find are the purest." 



The fact of salmon spawning in shallow 

 streams is ably described by Mr. John Miller, 

 the intelligent and active resident superin- 

 tendent of the Messrs. Ashworth's fisheries, 

 at Galway : 



"GALWAY SALMON FISHERY, 



"Weir's House, 10th. Jan. 1863. 



" I was very much struck yesterday, 9th 

 January, 1863, on walking along a small 

 river called Strawberry Hill. It takes its rise 

 out of a small lake between Tuam and Dun- 

 more, but nearest to the latter, and wends 



