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very similar in shape to the Grey or Bull Trout, but 

 much cleaner, which the fishermen call a North- 

 country Salmon. It is clearly not a Bull Trout, for 

 that fish is as well known in the Tweed as the Salmon 

 itself. I have no doubt but that it is rightly named, 

 and a wanderer from the northern coasts. 



I have also occasionally caught in the Tweed a 

 small silver fish, between a quarter and half a pound, 

 which seems of the Salmon tribe ; its flesh is of a 

 pale pink, and good eating. In the river Isla I have 

 taken many of them with a net. 



I have now given a brief account of all the fish of 

 the Salmon tribe in the Tweed, except the Salmo 

 Fario, or common Trout, which I do not profess to 

 treat of. Much more has been said by naturalists 

 as to distinctive character and organisation. Who- 

 ever wishes for minute information on these points, 

 cannot do better than consult the new edition of 

 Mr. Yarrell's unrivalled work on British Fishes a 

 gentleman to whom I feel much indebted for some 

 very liberal and scientific communications ; nor 

 must they omit to look into the pages of a most 

 highly entertaining and clever work lately pub- 

 lished, called The Rod and the Gun. 



I shall only add, that in allusion to the conse- 

 quence attributed to these beautiful fish in the 

 Tweed, and in consideration of the favourable 

 places for spawning in the upper parts of the river, 

 the Royal Burgh of Peebles wears for arms vert, 

 three salmon counter naiant in pale argent, with the 

 motto, " Contra nando Incrementum." 



In the arms of the city of Glasgow, and in those 



