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but, as one of these friends said to me, " Salmon seem to be 

 ■ like men — some like big houses, others like small." And I 

 thought there was much truth in the remark. ^ 



This river has the reputation of having sheltered a 

 fair number of fish in past years, and the woollen-mills 

 erected later are credited with having much reduced their 

 numbers. To make matters worse, the stream at the mouth 

 has split up into two divisions, thus curtailing the oppor- 

 tunities for fish to enter. 



The lessees are devising a scheme to re-unite the 

 streams, and filters have been constructed to receive the 

 mill-waflh, so they hope that with time the stock of fish 

 will increase. I trust and think it will do so. 



Here is an instance of the perseverance of the salmon 

 in ascending a multiplicity of steep pools, each providing a 

 resting place of merely a few cubic feet ; and here, as else- 

 where, it would appear that Salmo salar will ascend to 

 great heights when he knows, as in this case, that the 

 supply of aerated water throughout winter will be suflicient 

 to provide him with a home. 



To give some idea of what sport may be obtained in 

 the Evanger — Two rods fished beats Nos. 1 and 3 for the 

 first five weeks in a recent season, when the conditions 

 were such that few fish were in the upper water — at all 

 events, we only saw one. These rods either fished the lower 

 water (portion No. 3) upon alternate days, or both fished 



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