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produced by the approach or passing by of a large steamer. 

 The question arises, may not some of the other fishes on our 

 coast be affected in a corresponding manner by steam naviga- 

 tion? 



Many of the rivers in the United States, which, it is well 

 known, swarmed formerly with salmon, are now destitute of them 

 altogether ; and I was recently told by a gentleman from New 

 York, that the introduction and increase of steam navigation are 

 confidently placed to account for their disappearance. If this be 

 the case, it is high time to determine the amount of injury in- 

 flicted on our salmon rivers, the Tay and Tweed in particular, 

 by the laying on at their mouths of steam passage-boats, I 

 do not speak of tugs, which have become a necessity, but of 

 those vessels, which at all states of the tide, every half-hour 

 or oftener, plough across the direct course of the salmon, and 

 communicate their tremulous movements to a large and im- 

 portant portion of the estuary. 



OUT OF THE GALLERY OF MEMORY. 



I SIT by the river and weep a farewell, 

 My musings have grown to regrets, 



As I gaze on the tranquil stream leaving the dell, 

 And the fishermen shooting their nets. 



n. 



Roll back on the memory summers of joy, 

 And the shadowy sands of the Past, 



Discover the wandering tracks of the boy 

 Uninjured by billow or blast. 



