60 DAYS AND NIGHTS OF SALMON FISHING. 



is reasonable to suppose they did, then their growth 

 must have been proportionally greater. 



For the scientific and successful experiments of Mr. 

 Shaw, the Keith medal was awarded to him for the 

 biennial period of 1838 and 1839 : it is of gold, and of 

 the intrinsic value of sixty guineas. 



The importance of his proof is immense; for the Parrs 

 not having been before considered to be young Salmon, 

 have not been hitherto protected by the law beyond 

 the short period in which they assume their silver 

 dress, and thus have been killed by hundreds of thous- 

 ands, by the multitude of boys and men who angle in 

 the various tributary burns and rivers that pour their 

 waters into the Tweed. 



Mr. John Wilson says, in his evidence before the Select 

 Committee, taken in 1824 — " I have seen from my own 

 window upwards of seventy or eighty people angling 

 within the distance of half a mile on the Tweed." Then 

 there is the Teviot ; the Adder, comprising the White 

 Adder and Black Adder ; the Till, the Eden, the Kale, 

 the Oxnam, the Jed, the Ale, the Eule, the Slitrig, the 

 Gala, the Carter, the Borthwick, the Leader, the 

 Ettrick, the Yarrow, the Lyne, the Eddlestone, the 

 Manor, the Quhair, with many smaller burns and 

 mountain streams. In floods Salmon enter and spawn 

 in most of these rivers, if not in all of them ; at the 

 subsiding of the waters some of them fall back, and 

 some are left nearly dry, and easily captured. It is 

 ordained by nature that the Parr should in these cases 

 impregnate such ova as have been deposited, perhaps 

 because he is not so easily discovered, or such an object 



