108 THE HISTORY AND HABITS OF THE SALMON. 



has been rendered completely attenuated, and is figured over 

 with streaks or water lines, the entire hook having been 

 exposed to the action of the stomach. With such proofs 

 before me, I feel little hesitation in yielding to the opinion 

 that the digestive organs of the salmon proper are of such 

 power as to account in part for the seeming anomaly which 

 the voracious character of its jaws and gullet, when con- 

 trasted with the void condition of the stomach, presents to 

 the eye of the examiner. 



From their immense power of digestion, and the abund- 

 ance of food procurable in the sea, proceeds the rapid 

 growth of salmon during their short absence from the 



THE END. 



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A. and G. A. SPOTTISWOODE, 

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