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tions under which such pass has to accomplish thi3 object in 

 view. I have inspected several .so-called fish-passes, which 

 have proved to be nothing mere nor less than obstructions to 

 running fish, and I have seen nome that work so well or are 

 so satisf actory in every way as those planned by Mr. Malloch , 

 Some idea of his ingenuity in this direction may be gathered 

 irom the fact that he has just completed a. scheme whereby 

 salmon and sea-trout will be given access to what has seemed 



TOP OF FISH-PASS AT DUPPLIN DYKE. 



to b2 an impossible water hitherto'. His scheme is actually 

 an underground tunnel ! 



I think it will be best to give you some idea of what has 

 been done in the formation of fish-passes before describing how 

 the work has been accomplished, and I cannot do better in 

 the first place than show and tell you something about the 

 dam, lake, and fish-pass en the Schedule river, at Battleby, 

 Perthshire. 



A few years back the river Schochie (a tributary to the 

 famous salmon river, the Tay) was an unpretentious stream, 



