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Earn and R/uchil, with the exception of that portion of 

 the former river which adjoins Strowan, are open to 

 strangers ; also the whole of Loch Earn and the district 

 of Glen Almond, not far from Crieff. 



Having given a detailed account of most of the 

 streams and lakes connected with Strath Tay, I shall 

 now add a few particulars regarding the salmon-fishings 

 in the main river. Of these, the principal proprietors 

 are the city of Perth, Lord Gray, Sir John Richardson, 

 Earl of Kinnoul, Mr. Hay, of Suggieden; Duke of 

 Athol, Earl of Mansfield, &c. &c. The fishings belong- 

 ing to the town of Perth were let in 1837 for betwixt 

 eight and nine hundred pounds. Twenty years ago, 

 the rent was equivalent to fifteen hundred pounds. All 

 the salmon taken above Newburgh are shipped from 

 Perth to Dundee by lighters, and conveyed per steam to 

 London. In 1835, the numbers shipped exceeded 

 twenty-five thousand salmon and fifty thousand grilses, 

 making five thousand boxes, or two hundred and fifty 

 tons of fish. The average for the last twelve years, 

 however, has not exceeded four thousand five hundred 

 boxes. About nine thousand pounds may be stated as 

 the gross rental of the whole salmon-stations from Perth 

 to Newburgh. Lord Gray's stations were let in cumulo, 

 in 1837, for upwards of three thousand pounds. Not 

 long before, they fetched four thousand pounds ; and as 

 an example of the variation which this sort of property 

 is subject to, I may mention, that the fishings belonging 

 to Lord Mansfield, and extending from Scone Palace to 

 Cambus-Michael, conjunctly with a portion of those be- 

 longing to Lord Kinnoul above Quarry Mill-dam, were 

 let, in 1844, for one hundred and twenty pounds. 

 Eighteen years ago, the rent was eleven hundred pounds. 

 This singular reduction is owing, partly to the rival 



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