THE FOLLOWING PAGES, 



ESPECIALLY THOSE WHICH TREAT OF THE NATURAL 

 HISTORY OF SALMON, 



ARE, 



BY PERMISSION, GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED TO 



HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, K.G. 



IN TESTIMONY OF 



THE AI>MIRATION IN WHICH HE IS HELD, 



FOR HIS ENLIGHTENED. AND LIBERAL ADMINISTRATION 



OF HIS PRINCELY LAND AND WATER 



POSSESSIONS, — 



BY 



HIS OBLIGED AND DETOTED SERVANT, 



THE AUTHOR. 



London, March 1850. 



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