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CHAPTER IX. 



EXAMPLES OF CULTIVATED RIVERS, 



As my object is to suggest what I consider to be 

 the most profitable system of cultivating a salmon 

 river, I shall endeavour to illustrate my views by 

 stating a few facts as examples : 



1st. I have stated the example of the Furbogh 

 River : it is so narrow that a man could easily leap 

 across it in the summer season, at the place where it 

 falls into the sea, and yet this has a salmon weir and 

 cribs upon it for catching fish, with a Queen's gap of 

 only three feet wide, for the fish freely to pass through 

 at all times ; but as there is a lake near to the source 

 of the river, the fish naturally resort to it, and are 

 bred and caught in considerable quantities even in 

 this diminutive salmon fishery. Without the protec- 

 tion which the law affords to the proprietor of the 

 Furbogh, all the fish might be easily destroyed, and 

 the public would thereby sustain the loss of so much 

 food. 



2nd. I will allude to another, the Doohulla stream, 

 of ten feet wide, in which salmon ova has been depos- 

 ited, the fish artificially bred, they went to the sea, 

 and have since been caught in considerable numbers. 



3rd. The only other example that I will give is the 

 case of Mr. Edward Cooper, who possessed a river at 

 Ballisodare, Sligo, at the mouth of which there are 

 three precipitous cascades or waterfalls, of about 60 

 feet in height, to the foot of which the salmon resorted 

 before ladders were made; he erected ladders over 

 these falls by means of which the fish in one year 



