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or fall of water, as I never saw any where else : 

 The rock is above 20 yards high from one side of 

 the river to the other. The pool it tails into has 

 often been plumbed, and all attempts of that kind 

 have failed, to know the depth of it. Below 

 this 'Force, as they call it, there are abundance of 

 these pinks all the summer, but above it, there 

 never was one of them seen. 



Three or four miles above this Force, there is 

 a lough or black pool about a mile in circum^ 

 ference, full of trouts, black backed and yellow 

 bellied, fat and firm ; the neighbouring people 

 call this place the Wheel, through which the 

 Tees runs, and is very clear, both above and 

 below, and only looks red in the lake from the 

 colour of the earth, from whence they dig their 

 peats : from this pool to the head of the river, 

 which is about four miles, there are plenty of 

 trouts, as well as below it, down to the Force, 

 but no such thing as a pink. 



I could instance in some other places where 

 salmon can get no higher up a river^ and where 

 there is plenty of pinks below, but none above. 



Another reason why I believe the pink is from 

 a salmon, is, because they are all miltb or he-fish; 

 and to be fully satisfied in this point, t have 

 taken all the fish, that have been in a long shal- 

 low pool, above five hundred, of which there 

 have not been above twenty spotted trouts, all 

 the rest pinks with milts in them, but not one 

 roe in any of them ; so that I concluded, it was not 

 a distinct species of trouts, that could propagate 

 its own particular kind $ but was produced by 

 some heterogeneous spawning together of two 

 different species of fish. 



