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perfectly free from rocks ; with the exception 

 of two, which are found at the lower end, 

 small in themselves and by no means dan- 

 gerous. 



The Tanyard and Boxes are disagreeable 

 throws in themselves, and good only on ac- 

 count of the number of fish in them ; they 

 form the head of the Great Fall. The first 

 is fished from dry land, the other by wading 

 some thirty or forty yards along a sort of 

 breakwater immediately above the Falls. 



Such is the Erne : after which it only 

 remains to say, that the number of fish 

 which it contains is altogether inconceivable 

 — salmon, eels, trout, pike, perch ; but 

 none of them, excepting the two former, va- 

 lued or preserved. These, however, are 

 sources of great profit. 



These fish — the salmon and the eel — 

 equally affect both the sea and the fresh 

 water, with this singular difference, — the 

 salmon enters the fresh water to spawn, the 

 eel descends to the sea for the same purpose. 

 The salmon returns annually, the eel never. 

 The salmon fry, five inches in length, de- 



