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OF THE 



The history of this little fish, which is 



also distinguished by a great variety of other 



names, as the fingering, pink, gravling, 



i 



LAST - SPRING, SKIRLING, FORK -TAIL, 

 BRANDLING, SHEDDEK, SAMPSON, and PAR, 



has not been hitherto explained in a satisfac- 

 tory manner. 



They are only to be found in rivers fre- 

 quented by Salmon, and many are of 

 opinion that they are all males, and are the 

 dwarf or unnatural produce of the mixed 

 spawn of the Salmon and the Trout ; others 

 that they are produced from the spawn of 

 those Salmon, which being prevented from 

 regaining the sea, become sick and incapable 

 of the regular functions of nature. 



