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gut, that weighed twenty-one pounds, four 

 ounces. 



Sir H. Davy, used occasionally to visit the 

 Tweed. Upon one occasion, he killed a salmon, 

 that weighed forty-two pounds. 



Mr. Lascelles, in his letters on sporting, says, 

 " The largest salmon I ever knew taken with a 

 fly in Scotland, weighed fifty-four pounds and a 

 half." 



Sir Hyde Parker killed one in Sweden, that 

 weighed sixty pounds ; and the Earl of Home 

 killed one in the Tweed, which weighed sixty- 

 nine pounds and three-quarters. 



The season of 1835, was remarkable for large 

 salmon. A notice appeared in the papers of one 

 that weighed fifty-five pounds. Mr. Mudie has 

 recorded one of sixty pounds. In a note in 

 several editions of Walton, one is mentioned that 

 weighed seventy pounds. Pennant has noticed 

 one of seventy-four pounds. The largest I have 

 heard of was in the possession of Mr. Groves, 



