Cringletie, (then Mr. Wolfe Murray), "counsel for the 

 lower heritors, and which had previously been communicated 

 to the upper heritors* These persons were instructed, 

 that they * should go up the Tay till they found 

 6 the fry, and saw them distinctly seeking their way 

 4 downwards to the salt water ; that when the fry were 



* discovered, they should be carefully traced till they 



* change their situation in the water, that is, when they 



* leave the sides, or easy water, and go more into the 

 ( stream : that the fry should then be farther traced and 



* watched minutely, till they disappear entirely ; and, 



* that under the point where the fry disappears, between 

 c that and the occean, nets, with very small meshes, 



* should frequently be drawn in the water, between high 

 ' and low water-marks, in order to prove whether any 



* Salmon smolts are to be found in that body of the tide.' 

 And they were also instructed, that the stake-nets should 



* be daily examined, in order to discover whether any 

 < Salmon fry were to be seen in them.' These instruc- 

 tions are quoted, in order to shew the care with which the 

 matter was investigated. The result was a confirmation 

 of what has already been noticed in considering the ques- 

 tion as to the close-time ; that, in their progress to the 

 sea, the fry are so guided by instincts, or affected by ob- 

 vious physical causes, as invariably to prevent their ap- 

 proach to those parts of the coast where stake-nets are 

 used. They keep at first the easy water at the margin 

 of the river, avoiding the impetuosity of the jilum jlumi- 

 nis ; but at the point where the margin ceases to be easy 

 water, where the operation of the tide, the flux and reflux, 

 agitates the sides of the stream, they leave the banks, and 

 seek the peace and stillness of the deeper waters in the 

 middle ; and thus, without ever afterwards approaching 



