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FISII AND FISHING IN SCOTLAND, 



The glen of the Fastna, looking from Fastna Bridge, is the 

 wildest and most desolate scene, saving one, I have ever beheld. 

 Woe to the traveller caught here amongst the snows of winter. 

 To sleep amidst the snow is the sleep of death : he awakens no 



Fig. 5. 



FIG. 5 The smolt, drawn on a diminished scale. Compared with Figs. 3 and 4, it will 

 readily be seen how the forms of the young fish have already changed. The fins have 

 greatly altered in character. Notwithstanding, it has still many metamorphoses to 

 undergo before it assumes its true specific character. 



more. Yet the shepherds face those storms, and at night, in 

 search of their scattered flocks. They take nothing with them 

 hut a little bread ; to taste of ardent spirits is death. The faithful 

 clogs accompany them, and should they lose themselves, they 



FIG. 11 Dentition of the palate of the smolt or young salmon. At this stage it resem- 

 bles, not only in its dentition, but in all its other external characters, the young of all 

 the species of trout, sea trout, and salmon. 



FIG. 12 Dentition of the young salmon, about 2 or 31bs. weight. At this stage, the 

 true salmon has the dentition of the salmon trout. 



FIG. 13 Dentition of the full-grown salmon. The middle vomerine teeth are reduced to 

 one or two. These are merely outline sketches, the first somewhat enlarged. 



N.B. a a a mark the vomerine teeth, the characteristic teeth of the salmonidse ; bib, the 

 teeth called palatine ; ccc, the teeth called upper maxillary ; d d d, the teeth called 

 intermaxillary. All these teeth have reference only to the upper jaw. 



endeavour to regain the banks of one of the streams, which 

 serves them as the thread to guide them through the terrible 

 labyrinth of snow. 



As you ascend the Fastna, you will find a bank or scarbrae 011 



