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elements, and perhaps wanting foresight of this 

 imminent danger, she frequently encounters the 

 boiling water, which no sooner she touches, but 

 her life is snatch'd away by the suffocating 

 fumes, that immediately strangle her ; and thus 

 the poor salmon becomes a prey to the native, 

 when only in the pursuit of nature's dictates, 

 whose laws and rules are circumscrib'd and 

 bounded by the soveraignty of him that made 

 the creation. 



Theoph. This, I must needs say, is a barbarous 

 practice, but a quick way of cookery. 



Arn. Such kind of cookery will serve a Scots 

 commoner, as lives on the bray and skirts of the 

 Highlands. But we relinquish these pleasant 

 streams of Errit, to patrole the fields of Cooper 

 in Angus, where Scotland's great general (the 

 Earl of Leven) was born promiscuously of ob- 

 scure parents. In this little corporation of Coo- 

 per in Angus, the chief Magistrate is a bayliff, 

 master sometimes of a brewster-house ; where we 

 may refresh our selves, before we trample the 

 sands of Hay, imbellished with rocks, and lofty 

 trees, that shade her shining murmuring streams, 

 and shelter her numerous sholes of fish, especial- 

 ly towards her source, where you may observe 

 the shores shine of a golden colour, resembling 

 the glittering sands of Tagus. And the river 



