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that there is more than one sort of them ; as namely, a tecon, 

 and another called in some places a samlet, or by some a skcg- 

 ger : hut these and others, which I forbear to name, may be fish 

 of another kind, and differ as we know a herring and a pilchard 

 do, which, I think, are as different as the rivers in which they 

 breed, and must by me be left to the disquisitions of men of more 

 leisure, and of greater abilities, than I profess myself to have. 



And lastly, I am to borrow so much of your promised patience 

 as to tell you, that the trout or salmon being in season, have at 

 their first taking out of the water, which continues during life, 

 their bodies adorned, the one with such red spots, and the other 

 with such black or blackish spots, as give them such an addition 

 of natural beauty, as, I think, was never given to any woman by 

 the artificial paint or patches in which they so much pride tliem- 

 selves in this age.* And so I shall leave them both, and proceed 

 to some observations on the pike. 



and JSlghts of Salmon Fishing) of the manner in which that method is 

 practised in Scotland ; nor can he have forgotten Dandie Dinmont's ex- 

 ploits in hunting the salmon on horseback among the shallow pools left by 

 the receding tide. Bingley, in his Animal Biography, describes the same 

 hunting of salmon at Whitehaven by a man named Graham, who was liv- 

 ing near Gretna Green, in ISll, then ninety-eight years old, but still able 

 to pursue his favorite sport (armed with a trident, on horseback), of which 

 he was supposed to be the inventor. This supposition, however, is, no 

 doubt, a mistake — jim. Ed. 



* The reader has been made familiar with this strange practice by the 

 chapters in the Spectator on it. It was in vogue for more than a century, 

 and used by the different arrangement of the patches to mark the side the 

 wearer took in politics, &c. — Atn. Ed. 



