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transitu. In water at or below a temperature of 40 degrees, 

 grayling, trout, or parrs under six inches in length will survive 

 a journey of three or four hours' continuance without exhibiting 

 any marked symptoms of distress. With trout of much larger 

 dimensions it is hazardous to deal in the way of transmission, 

 without the aid of a force-pump or other apparatus, through 

 means of which the consumption of oxygen in the water may 

 become remedied. In addition to the oxygenizing, a refrigerative 

 process might, I think, be introduced with happy effect, in the 

 transfer of the Salmonldce. An external application of ice to the 

 vessel employed would be preferable, there can be no question, 

 to an infusion or occasional admixture of the frozen element, 

 which, as is well known, is incapable, however much it may serve 

 to lower the temperature of the aqueous medium, of giving forth 

 the sustentative principle, in shape of oxygen. The conversion of 

 water into ice by the abstraction of the air, an experiment which 

 every one has seen performed, is sufficiently elucidatory on this 

 point. 



THE KING O' THE CAULD. 



OWER at the cauld-foot, 



There bides an auld troot, 

 No mony there be that are wiser ; 



It baffles a' skill 



To tether his gill, 

 An' gi'e the sly boy a surpriser. 



ii. 



He 's thick an' he 's braid, 

 Wi' sprecks lik a taed, 

 An' spangles o' ilka dimension ; 



