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was there of the vam' fallacies of men totally 

 unacquainted with the matter to start a new 

 project? 



Let us now proceed to consider rivers in Ireland 

 of far steeper falls, of far greater force of water, 

 in which the ladder really is said to have been of 

 service, because properly and reasonably applied, 

 the entrance to the ladder placed in, as I am told, 

 the exact spot where the instincts, not the reason- 

 ing power, of a salmon would look for a means 

 of ascent, and up which instinct would lead him to 

 ascend. 



I allude now to the county of Sligo and to the 

 Ballisodere Fishery. No wonder that those broths 

 of Irish boys beat us in reference to water, as they 

 do so far surpass us in the interests of whisky* 



The Ballisodere river, if I have not been led into 

 error^ is formed by the union of the Owenmore 

 aiid Arrow, which unite about two and a quarter 

 miles above the Bay of Ballisodere* The Owen- 

 more and its affluent, the Owenbeg, flow in a 

 northerly and easterly direction, draining the south 

 side of the county and the southern slopes of the 

 Ox Mountains. 



The Arrow drains the south-east of the county, 



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