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should be allowed in salmon rivers till May, and 

 not after October > the period of close time should 

 be extended. 



NOTES. 



because he had often seen snakes' eggs in dunghills, " and 

 squeezed out the young snakes ;" (a sort of black snake 

 which is oviparous, and lays its eggs in a dunghill : it is not 

 poisonous, and will not bite ; no provocation will make him 

 do so ;) that these were about the same size, and he could 

 not expect to see any other eggs in a dunghill ; but he soon 

 found that they were not so, but were the roe of a salmon, 

 of which he presently after turned up the head and jowl ; 

 that they were about the " size of a magpie's eggs 5" of a 

 reddish colour ; not oval, but perfectly round ; in number 

 a great many hundreds, whereas a snake only lays about 

 1 5 or 1 6 ; that he did not examine their contents particu- 

 larly, though he observed they contained a liquid matter ; 

 and that such as were not destroyed he carried away in the 

 dung. 



