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whose volume of water is more abundant. Thus 

 many Tweed Salmon have been caught in the Forth, 

 and a very successful fishing there is generally 

 followed by a scarce one in the Tweed. 



It appears that Salmon will live, and even breed, in 

 fresh water, without ever making a visit to the sea. 

 Mr. Lloyd, in his interesting and entertaining work 

 on the Field Sports of the North of Europe, says, 

 ' Near Katrinebergh there is a valuable fishery for 

 Salmon, ten or twelve thousand of these fish being 

 taken annually. These Salmon are bred in a lake, 

 and in consequence of cataracts cannot have access 

 to the sea. They are small in size, and inferior in 

 flavour. The year 1820 furnished 21,817." * 



Mr. George Dormer of Stone Mills, in the parish 

 of Bridport, put a female of the Salmon tribe, which 

 measured twenty inches in length, and was caught 

 by him at his mill-dam, into a small well, where it 

 remained twelve years, and at length died in the 

 year 1842. The well measured only 5 feet by 2 feet 

 4 inches, and there was only 15 inches depth of 

 water. In this confined spot she remained up to 

 Saturday the I2th of last month, when death put a 

 period to her existence. This fish has been the 

 means of great attraction since the time she was 

 mentioned in the newspapers, which was about five 



* The " land-locked " salmon, as it is called, seems to be merely 

 5. salar with a habit of migration to a big lake instead of the sea. 

 Lake Wenern in Sweden, and some of the big lakes in N.E. America 

 contain these fish, called " ouananiche " in America. As might be 

 expected salmon with a lake migration do not reach such a weight 

 as their sea-going brethren, anything over 10 Ib. being considered 

 big. It is, of course, a question of food supplies. (ED.) 



