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of Iceland," remarks, " The common salmon feeds 

 on small fishes and various small marine animals." 

 Dr. Fleming confirms this, when he states that 

 their favorite food in the sea is the sand eel. 



In a Prize Essay, published in the transactions 

 of the Highland Society, Mr. Morrison says, " I 

 have taken salmon within flood mark, some of 

 which had two, and others three, full-sized 

 herrings in their stomachs." 



Mr. George Dormer, of Stone Mills, in the 

 parish of Bridport, put a female salmon which 

 measured twenty inches in length, into a small 

 well, which measured only five feet by two feet four 

 inches, and there was only fifteen inches depth of 

 water. In this confined place she remained 

 twelve years, she would come to the top of the 

 water and take meat off a plate, and would devour 

 a quarter of a pound of lean meat in less time 

 than a man could eat it. She would allow Mr. 

 Dormer to take her out of the water, and when 

 put into it again, would immediately take meat 



