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sessing reason, or legs, for that matter, the sahnon 

 does not see that Messrs. Buckland's and Fennel's 

 ladder in any way leads him to the water he 

 desires. Instinct alone, for the propagation of 

 species, induces him to leave the sea ; instinct 

 alone makes him thread the bed of the river, and, 

 when the water is shallow, to lie under and wait 

 for an opportunity to jump up the mid-stream and 

 strongest fall of the descending water. 



This is instinct without a thought. The fish by 

 nature at certain seasons is prompted to fresh 

 water, therein to deposit spawn. Where the freshest 

 water is, there will the salmon be ; and as fish do 

 not ''thinJtj^^ the fallacies of foolish men, even if 

 they put a hansom cab at their disposal as well as a 

 '' ladder," will never induce the salmon to accept 

 other means of ascending rivers or anything else 

 than that suggested by instinct, the gift of Nature. 



On ascending from the sea, according to natural 

 instinct, the salmon finds herself stopped, when no 

 natural impediment arises. By a weir or other 

 artificial means; the old ^^ gap" through which we 

 and our forefathers for years had known salmon to 

 pass when salmon were in plenty, and up wliichj 

 and against any force of water, / hai'c seen that 



