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cleaner, which the fishermen call a North-country 

 Salmon. It is clearly not a Bull Trout, for that fish is 

 as well known in the Tweed as the Salmon itself. I 

 have no doubt but that it is rightly named, and a wan- 

 derer from the northern coasts. 



I have also occasionally caught in the Tweed a small 

 silver fish, between a quarter and half a pound, which 

 seems of the Salmon tribe ; its flesh is of a pale pink, 

 and good eating. In the river Isla I have taken many 

 of them with a net. 



I have now given a brief account of all the fish of 

 the Salmon tribe in the Tweed, except the Salmo Fario, 

 or common Trout, which I do not profess to treat of. 

 Much more has been said by naturalists as to dis- 

 tinctive character and organisation. Whoever wishes 

 for minute information on these points, cannot do better 

 than consult the new edition of Mr. Yarrell's unrivalled 

 work on British Fishes, — a -gentleman to whom I feel 

 much indebted for some very liberal and scientific com- 

 munications; nor must they omit to look into the 

 pages of a most highly entertaining and clever work 

 lately published, called " The Rod and the Gun." 



I shall only add, that in allusion to the consecpaence 

 attributed to these beautiful fish in the Tweed, and in 

 consideration of the favourable places for spawning in 

 the upper parts of the river, the Royal Burgh of Peebles 

 wears for arms, — vert, three salmon counter naiant in 

 pale argent, with the motto, w Contra nando Incre- 

 mentum." 



In the arms of the city of Glasgow, and in those of 

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