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This point in the river Tay was found to be near Car- 

 pow Bank, immediately below the junction of the Earn 

 with the Tay. Until the fry approached to within half 

 a mile, or three quarters of a mile, of Carpow Bank, they 

 were seen distinctly at the margin. When they first dis- 

 appeared, they were found, by trials with the small 

 meshed net, to be in the mid-stream : but a short way 

 farther down, they were so completely in the depth, that 

 they could no longer be discerned. Now, no stake-nets 

 were ever erected in the Tay above Carpow-Bank. And 

 from the very habits and instincts of the fry, therefore, 

 none could be within the reach of the stake-nets in the 

 Tay. 



These habits and instincts, indeed, afford a gene- 



* fry goes down the river in the month of April ; and the nets 

 ' used for catching spirlings are so small in the mesh, that 

 ' they would catch Salmon-fry, as they have caught spirling- 

 ' fry, which is smaller than Salmon-fry. Depones, That dur- 

 ' ing the survey of the stake-nets, along with Shepherd, the 

 ' deponent just saw onejbuljish or kelt in the Monorgan stake" 

 ' net, which was taken out and thrown back into the, river. De- 

 ' pones, That during their survey, the deponent was generally 

 ' in the stake-net before thejishers came to take out the t fish. De 

 ' pones, That they observed no Salmon-fry in the Tay till the 



* 28th day of April, when thcyjirst saw them at the Coal Shore, 

 ' immediately below Perth, in thousands, and found them down- 

 ' wards all the way, till within half a mile above the junction of 

 f the Earn with the Tay. Depones, That at high water, and at 

 ' the first of the flood, the deponent observed the fry in the 

 ' easy water, near the side of the river, and when the tide eb- 

 ' bed, they appeared to go into the current ; and the last fry 

 ' which the deponent caught with the net in going down the river , 

 ' was in, the channel opposite to Carpow-Bank.' 



