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matter, and must be remedied at any cost ! 



Thanks to the not unnatural alarm of the 

 landowners, and their determination, if necessary, 

 to resort to the existing law, which is quite 

 stringent enough to correct the evil, for the 

 last season the Dovey has been freer from 

 mine-water, and in consequence better furnished 

 with fish, than it has been since my recollection. 



That our Autumn-fishing should be extended 

 three weeks, on condition of our foregoing the 

 Spring-fishing, has, I am sorry to find, been 

 a sad blow to a few of our old members, 

 though a welcome boon to the majority. 



One of the former discards altogether the 

 commonly received notion, that many, if not 

 most, of the fish in the river in the Spring are 

 Kelts at all; but, on the contrary, fish that, 

 after spawning, have gone down for a time 

 to recruit in the estuary, and returned again. 

 He has also a theory of his own about the 

 "scaling," as he calls it, of the fish, and of 

 the scales themselves, which I have frequently 



