PEE FACE, 



IN endeavouring to give a short, and, I hope, 

 correct, account of the habits and migrations of 

 the salmon in rivers, and while absent from these 

 rivers, I have confined the account generally to the 

 natural habits of working and depositing their 

 seed ; how instinct leads them, at the proper time, 

 to select the suitable places in a river wherein they 

 may deposit their seed to advantage, and where, 

 unless by some natural yet unforeseen cause, it 

 will lie in security until the time of incubation is 

 over, when, after that, their security entirely de- 

 pends on the dictates of nature and the wide 

 waters for their feeding-ground. 



I have touched very little on artificial breeding, 

 that being a process perfectly simple; for if a 

 breeding-box be made, resembling the natural beds 

 made by the fish themselves in a river, and a con- 

 stant run of water over the box, so as to keep the 

 eggs from becoming addled, and the ova be properly 



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