CHAPTER VI. 



NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SALMON. 



THE natural history of the Salmon tribe having of late 

 years excited much interest in England, I cannot do better 

 than to devote a chapter to some remarks, the result of an 

 attentive study of their habits for several consecutive years, 

 recorded by my gifted friend and countryman, Mr. Alexander 

 Keiller ; observations which, I doubt not, will be interesting 

 even to the unscientific and general reader. They were made 

 by that gentleman during a long residence on the Save, a 

 tributary of the Gotha, and at a distance of from fifteen to 

 twenty miles from the sea, and he saw everything to peculiar 

 advantage the Save at Jonserud, where the observations 

 were made, being invariably clear. That river, which is of 

 a moderate breadth, has its rise far up the country ; during 

 its course it passes through a chain of large lakes, the last 

 of which, the Aspen, is immediately above the mansion, and 



