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verted parr," as he designates it, or smolt, being two 

 years old, whilst ours is only one. At two years 

 old his smolt measures about six inches in length ; 

 ours at the age of one year measures five and a 

 half inches, and at the age of two years it will be 

 most probably a well-conditioned salmon, weighing 

 from nine to fourteen pounds, or at any rate it 

 will be a grilse-kelt, averaging between two and 

 three feet in length, at a very moderate calcu- 

 lation, and having been of the weight of six lbs. 

 or thereabouts at the age of eighteen months, that 

 is at the time or nearly so of its spawning for the 

 first time. At this age of eighteen months, Mr. 

 Shaw's engraved specimen is about five and a half 

 inches in length, and its transverse bars distinctly 

 visible. It could barely weigh six ounces. Ours 

 at that age would weigh as many pounds or more, 

 and would be much nearer thirty-six inches in 

 length than five and a half inches. A very great 

 error exists somewhere. Is it ours or Mr. Shaw's ? 

 Time will tell. 



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