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scend to the sea in spring. The eel fry 

 come up in autumn, when about the size of 

 knitting-needles. The salmon are taken as 

 they ascend, the eel as they descend. The 

 salmon never moves by night, and the eel 

 never moves by day. On an average season, 

 about a hundred tons of salmon are taken 

 and sixty of eels ; and as the fishing part of 

 the river is certainly not more than five 

 miles in length, a consideration of this, com- 

 pared with the weight taken, will give some 

 idea of the numbers it contains. 



