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with very small fry of sea fish, (we did not 

 discover what kind of fish they were the fry of,) 

 which came in through the grating with every 

 tide, and we saw abundance of food for the young 

 salmon. We left them under the charge of Mr 

 Gray, the tacksman of the salmon fishings at 

 the mouth of the Cowie, and also the men 

 employed by him, who lived on the spot, and 

 they promised to see that no harm came over 

 them. The fish were put into the pond on the 

 30th of June, and on the 8th of July our cor- 

 respondent writes : " I have the great pleasure to 

 inform you that your fish have been seen in the 

 evening jumping at the flies. I have no doutbt but 

 they are delighted with their new quarters as they 

 have everything that they can desire. The salmon 

 fishers seem to take a great interest in them." 



July 28th. The fishermen reported that they 

 had seen the whole of the fish at the mouth of 

 the pipe their favourite resort. The largest 

 appeared to be about the size of a herring. 



August 5th. The four year old smoult was, 

 reported to have been seen by one of the fisher- 

 men, and that it had the appearance of a sea 

 trout of 1| Ibs. weight, but the rest of the fisher- 

 men said it was not so heavy. 



